# Tumble Tool Weirdness
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** new-user
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045 "2010-03-03T00:32:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@drone3](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/drone3)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045/1 "2010-03-03T00:32:42Z")
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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### Author:  [@drone3](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/drone3)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045/2 "2010-03-03T01:03:45Z")
correction, after importing the object into a new scene , i can see it was in the wrong axis.
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### Author:  [@drone3](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/drone3)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045/3 "2010-03-03T06:09:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/tumble-tool-weirdness/42045/4 "2010-03-03T07:09:26Z")
You have changed the up preference.