diff --git a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
index 59682ec72..0dae3aef8 100644
--- a/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/View3DPy.cpp
@@ -429,8 +429,17 @@ Py::Object View3DInventorPy::viewAxonometric(const Py::Tuple& args)
         //p1=App.Rotation(App.Vector(1,0,0),45)
         //p2=App.Rotation(App.Vector(0,0,1),-45)
         //p3=p2.multiply(p1)
+        //_view->getViewer()->setCameraOrientation(SbRotation
+        //    (0.353553f, -0.146447f, -0.353553f, 0.853553f));
+
+        //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));
+             (0.424708f, 0.17592f, 0.339851f, 0.820473f));
     }
     catch (const Base::Exception& e) {
         throw Py::Exception(e.what());