BTW you can drag the cube to a desired position, took me months to notice that too ...

No, sorry, I don't have that on, so it moves along ? That is unintentional side effect. Thanks for reporting.

As to why I did not use the python commands was that I could not find python commands for the "left_rear","top_right_front" etc commands... If the python commands are available I would like to change this of course. That would indeed be something we could add to the python inter...

1. The cube is always in perspective projection, even if the user has orthographic on in the main view. that is a bit confusing. Admitted and originally I had not plan to have any perspective but I kind of fell for it and like it even in ortho mode. Easy to change of course and it could be an optio...

Thank, it was in the preferences, I did not realise one can configure that. Brilliant.

Hi Ickby, thanks for the thoughtful comments. As a general note this is just the beginning of making this into a usable feature...felt I needed to show it before I spend too much time on it. Agree with your comments almost 100% but now it is past midnight here so I will have to leave commenting unti...

Her you go:

Hi, I've just pushed my first attempt at creating a "Navigation Cube" for FreeCAD. You can get it from my Github repo from the "navicube" branch: https://github.com/nyholku/FreeCAD/tree/navicube Here is comparison against master: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/compare/master....

Of course it would start proceeding about five minutes after I posted this cry for help! Sorry about the noise...

Hi, I'm just about ready to share my first efforts in creating a navicube for FreeCAD. I've got the code in my FreeCAD.git directory which I at some point got from Github with 'download as zip'. To get the code out there my plan was: 1) clone the FreeCAD in Github so I have my own github repo for it...