# Default view direction

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/default-view-direction/16375
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/default-view-direction/16375 "2025-03-24T09:48:26Z")
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### Author: ![jeDuck](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jeDuck](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jeDuck)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/default-view-direction/16375/1 "2025-03-24T09:48:26Z")

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Currently when one launches Paraview, the camera orientation is set to +X. I would like to have isometric view as default in my application. How can I do that? I tried to set default\_values for CameraFocalPoint property in rendering.xml, but it didn’t do the trick

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/default-view-direction/16375/2 "2025-03-24T12:34:25Z")

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I’m afraid not. You could create a StartupPlugin to trigger the change of camera on startup, but its a bit overkill.

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### Author: ![jeDuck](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jeDuck](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jeDuck)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/default-view-direction/16375/3 "2025-03-26T07:40:51Z")

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A possible workaround is to call pqCameraReaction from ParaviewMainWindow.cxx.