diff --git a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
index 2be967c5d..80f3ee4df 100644
--- a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
@@ -384,8 +384,14 @@ Py::Object View3DInventorPy::viewAxometric(const Py::Tuple& args)
         throw Py::Exception();
 
     try {
+        //from math import sqrt, degrees, asin
+        //p1=App.Rotation(App.Vector(1,0,0),90)
+        //p2=App.Rotation(App.Vector(0,0,1),45)
+        //p3=App.Rotation(App.Vector(1,1,0),45)
+        //p3=App.Rotation(App.Vector(1,1,0),degrees(asin(sqrt(1.0/3.0))))
+        //p4=p3.multiply(p2).multiply(p1)
         _view->getViewer()->setCameraOrientation(SbRotation
-            (-0.353553f, -0.146447f, -0.353553f, -0.853553f));
+            (0.820473f, 0.339851f, 0.17592f, 0.424708f));
     }
     catch (const Base::Exception& e) {
         throw Py::Exception(e.what());