I tried to do as the solidworks 2003 help files suggest, it works, that isn't the effect that I'm looking for. I have a model that when I hit the space bar and select isometric view it shows "feature a" farther away from me. I would like to change the orientation so that "feature a" would instead be the closest to me. basically I would like to spin the model about the y axis 180 degrees, would put "feature a" closest to me. The solidworks 2003 help files say to select 2 planar faces while holding down the ctrl key. The
1st face to select has to be the face that you want to see closest to you and the second planar face has to be the face that you want pointing up. I do as told and the effect is as expected, the 1st plane runs parallel to the screen and the second plane is pointing up. This is not the effect I'm after.