Mod the Machine

Change Front camera view of model

In the UI there is an option to modify the Front/Top/etc orientation of camera for the model.
It's available under the View Cube's menu item "Set Current View as" - see left side of picture

You can also run that command programmatically to achieve the same result. 
First set the camera to the direction that you want to set as the Front then run the command "AppViewCubeViewFrontCmd"

Dim c As Camera
Set c = ThisApplication.ActiveView.Camera
c.ViewOrientationType = kRightViewOrientation
Call c.ApplyWithoutTransition
 
Dim cds As ControlDefinitions
Set cds = ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions
 
Dim cd As ControlDefinition
Set cd = cds.Item("AppViewCubeViewFrontCmd")
Call cd.Execute

Modify Inventor Project (*.ipj file) directly

The Inventor API exposes pretty much all the Project related functionality through the DesignProjectManager and DesignProject objects:

However, if a certain functionality is not exposed or is not working correctly, you may modify the project file (*.ipj) directly as well.

1) Make sure that a copy of the project file is saved somewhere so that you won't overwrite it by accident
2) Then modify the project through the UI - see above picture
3) Save the project file
4) Compare the content of the original project file and the new one to see what exactly got added or changed
5) Now you know how to modify the project programmatically so that it will have the necessary content



This is the method that was followed in this example as well: https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2016/11/add-to-frequently-used-subfolders-collection.html

-Adam