Entering XYZ coordinates manually, Fusion 360 Mac OS

[gallerywallace]

I know this is probably very basic for experienced users - but where can I enter XYZ coordinates manually pre-rendering? I'm not the creator of solidworks files and NOT a 3D person - but I'm now required to take .step files and render them for use in marketing materials. The issue is, no matter what I do, what point I select I cannot get to a point where you can see some the right / top / front (can't get the right side mainly). I think it might be a single-button mac issue? (see attachment). Fusion 360 is really clean well executed progam, but manually entering XYZ is alluding me (

Thanks in advance

[Steven_Gao]

If you want to change the views, you can click the view cube or use the rotation tool(Free Orbit/Constrained Orbit). Please refer to the attached picture.

[gallerywallace]

Nope, not an answer. I can rotate the cube in all sorts of directions, but a view with top/fronr/right side is not really selectable. TYPED XYZ is what I need. That's entering coordinates like X:10, Y:16, Z:40. 

[gallerywallace · Accepted solution]

Sorry for that reply, I must have been having a terrible day. I'm not great at explaining at what I need, and I'm still battling this chimera. Your explanation got me 3/4 of the way there, and with the addition of creating a new assembly, joint origin/RIGID GROUP - and mostly the ORBIT tool I've gotten 90% of the way. Not able to do this entering XYZ coordinates, which is key. I'll keep trying

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

@gallerywallace 

Set up a surface at desired orientation.

Click Look At.

Hide the surface.

[gallerywallace]

Brilliant. I'm getting an actual engineer (solidworks guy) to help me set this up. Thanks. 

[TheCADWhisperer]

@gallerywallace 

If I recall correctly they call the Look At command Normal To in SolidWorks.

3 Points to define a Workplane or Extrude a planar surface.

After you set up the view you can save as a Named View so that you can return to that view at any time.

Right click here...