Tumble Tool Weirdness

Maya
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Hi All,

maya's tumble tool (that allows the camera to orbit around objects) is acting really strange.

everything was fine until i think i must have altered something by mistake maybe a hotkey.

so now instead of moving around the object as if it was following the 3d horizon of the object selected, it now tumbles the object either clockwise or anti-clockwise.

its kind of hard to explain, i suspected that my scene was not on the correct axis but from the orthographic viewports its all fine.

any help would be much appreciated

thanks in advance 

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correction, after importing the object into a new scene , i can see it was in the wrong axis.

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ok, i'm back. this is really weird. i open a new scene reference a character and my grid is vertical instead of horizontal. I have used this character like 500 times and maya never brought the character in lying down instead of standing up. 

what in the world is going on? 

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You have changed the up preference.