diff --git a/src/app/update/viewport.rs b/src/app/update/viewport.rs
index 6241fde5b..962b7137c 100644
--- a/src/app/update/viewport.rs
+++ b/src/app/update/viewport.rs
@@ -5511,9 +5511,10 @@ properties={:.1}ms picked={}",
         }
         let eye_dir = r_ucs.transform_vector3(region.snap_direction());
 
-        // Faces snap to a canonical upright orientation (never upside
-        // down); edges/corners keep the current up-sense so they spin
-        // smoothly around the clicked feature.
+        // Faces and edges/corners all snap deterministically (world +Z
+        // horizon, north +Y for top/bottom) so a cube click is repeatable
+        // and matches the turntable orbit; snap_to_direction preserves an
+        // intentional upside-down sense by sign-flipping only.
         let is_face = matches!(region, scene::CubeRegion::Face(_));
         if self.tabs[i].scene.active_viewport.is_some() {
             if is_face {
diff --git a/src/scene/pipeline/viewcube.rs b/src/scene/pipeline/viewcube.rs
index 782f10a1e..fc1709aab 100644
--- a/src/scene/pipeline/viewcube.rs
+++ b/src/scene/pipeline/viewcube.rs
@@ -142,24 +142,39 @@ impl CubeRegion {
 
     /// Unit eye-direction vector (from target toward the camera) that
     /// looks straight at this region. Used by `Camera::snap_to_direction`
-    /// which derives the full orientation by re-using the current
-    /// camera's up vector, projected onto the plane perpendicular to
-    /// this direction — so clicking an edge spins the cube around the
-    /// edge without rolling the user's "up" sense.
+    /// / `snap_to_face` which derive a deterministic horizon (world +Z,
+    /// except top/bottom where north +Y is used) so every cube click
+    /// lands repeatably.
     pub fn snap_direction(self) -> glam::Vec3 {
         let c = region_centroids()[self.id()];
         glam::Vec3::new(c[0], c[1], c[2]).normalize_or(glam::Vec3::Z)
     }
 
     pub fn opposite(self) -> CubeRegion {
-        match self {
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_TOP) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_BOTTOM),
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_BOTTOM) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_TOP),
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_FRONT) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_BACK),
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_BACK) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_FRONT),
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_RIGHT) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_LEFT),
-            CubeRegion::Face(FACE_LEFT) => CubeRegion::Face(FACE_RIGHT),
-            other => other,
+        // Generic opposite: the region whose centroid is nearest to -self.
+        // Covers faces, edges and corners so "already there → flip" works
+        // for every cube click, not just faces.
+        let centroids = region_centroids();
+        let c = centroids[self.id()];
+        let neg = [-c[0], -c[1], -c[2]];
+        let mut best = self.id();
+        let mut best_d = f32::MAX;
+        for (i, cc) in centroids.iter().enumerate() {
+            let dx = cc[0] - neg[0];
+            let dy = cc[1] - neg[1];
+            let dz = cc[2] - neg[2];
+            let d = dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz;
+            if d < best_d {
+                best_d = d;
+                best = i;
+            }
+        }
+        if best < 6 {
+            CubeRegion::Face(best)
+        } else if best < 18 {
+            CubeRegion::Edge(best)
+        } else {
+            CubeRegion::Corner(best)
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/scene/view/camera.rs b/src/scene/view/camera.rs
index c5364b9f7..c5a92d8c3 100644
--- a/src/scene/view/camera.rs
+++ b/src/scene/view/camera.rs
@@ -645,44 +645,29 @@ impl Camera {
     /// Snap to a canonical view direction (called by ViewCubeSnap).
     /// `eye_dir` is the unit vector from the target toward the camera.
     ///
-    /// Up vector resolution:
-    ///  1. Take the current up.
-    ///  2. Pick the world axis (±X, ±Y, ±Z) whose dot product with the
-    ///     current up is highest — skipping any axis (anti-)parallel to
-    ///     the new gaze direction.
-    ///  3. Project that axis onto the plane ⊥ `new_eye` and use that as
-    ///     the new up.
-    ///
-    /// Result: small tilts collapse onto the nearest world axis (so the
-    /// view always lands cleanly aligned), while genuine flips of the
-    /// up-sense (e.g. orbited upside-down) are preserved.
+    /// Deterministic horizon: when looking close to ±Z (top/bottom) the
+    /// up is north (+Y), otherwise world up (+Z), projected onto the
+    /// plane ⊥ `new_eye`. This matches the turntable `orbit` (which never
+    /// banks) so a cube corner always lands with the same roll and the
+    /// base never appears rotated. The sign is flipped only if the
+    /// current view is intentionally upside-down, preserving that sense.
     pub fn snap_to_direction(&mut self, eye_dir: Vec3, ucs: glam::Mat4) {
         let new_eye = eye_dir.normalize_or(Vec3::Z);
-        let cur_up = self.rotation * Vec3::Y;
-        // Candidate up axes are the UCS axes, not world X/Y/Z, so a face snap
-        // lands the view square to the user's coordinate system (in-plane roll
-        // included). Identity `ucs` reproduces the world-aligned snap.
-        let ux = ucs.transform_vector3(Vec3::X).normalize_or(Vec3::X);
         let uy = ucs.transform_vector3(Vec3::Y).normalize_or(Vec3::Y);
         let uz = ucs.transform_vector3(Vec3::Z).normalize_or(Vec3::Z);
-        let cardinals = [ux, -ux, uy, -uy, uz, -uz];
-        let mut best_score = f32::NEG_INFINITY;
-        let mut best_up = uz;
-        for axis in cardinals {
-            // Skip axes (nearly) collinear with the new gaze — they can't
-            // serve as up because the projection onto the plane would
-            // vanish.
-            if axis.dot(new_eye).abs() > 0.999 {
-                continue;
-            }
-            let score = axis.dot(cur_up);
-            if score > best_score {
-                best_score = score;
-                best_up = axis;
-            }
-        }
-        // Project the chosen axis onto the plane ⊥ new_eye and normalize.
-        let projected = best_up - new_eye * best_up.dot(new_eye);
+        // Deterministic horizon: top/bottom views (eye ≈ ±Z) use north (+Y)
+        // as up; every other direction uses world up (+Z). This keeps the
+        // cube's "Top Front Right" etc. repeatable and aligned with the
+        // turntable orbit (which never banks), and avoids the previous
+        // adaptive choice that picked the nearest cardinal to the current
+        // up — from a top view that was +Y, so an oblique top corner kept
+        // Y as up and tilted the base (roll) instead of keeping the horizon
+        // level. Preserve the sign only to keep an intentionally inverted
+        // (upside-down) view inverted.
+        let cur_up = self.rotation * Vec3::Y;
+        let raw_ref = if new_eye.dot(uz).abs() > 0.9 { uy } else { uz };
+        let up_ref = if cur_up.dot(raw_ref) < 0.0 { -raw_ref } else { raw_ref };
+        let projected = up_ref - new_eye * up_ref.dot(new_eye);
         let new_up = projected.normalize_or(if new_eye.dot(uz).abs() < 0.99 {
             (uz - new_eye * uz.dot(new_eye)).normalize()
         } else {