You can use the View Selector to see and select model views in context.
Press Ctrl + Spacebar or click View Selector in the Orientation dialog box.
The View Selector helps you see what the right, left, front, back, top, and axonometric views of your model will look like when selected. Click a face of the View Selector to select a view. Press Alt to select views on the back of the View Selector cube.
Use the flyout button in the Orientation dialog box to set which type of axonometric view (isometric, dimetric, or trimentric) is displayed when you select a View Selector corner. For example, in this model, you select Trimetric in the Orientation dialog box and then click the bottom corner (highlighted below).
The model rotates to the bottom trimetric view:
You can control the speed of the animation of the View Selector by clicking and adjusting the View Selector slider.