- rotation about a face seems to be an afterthought. As it stands you need to hold shift and middle mouse to rotate around the scene. Not sure if there is even a way to orient around a face or object. This is particularly frustrating in assembly mode when you want to see how parts are being constrained against each other and test those constraints.
this reminds me of every other horrible 3d tool that I've used that ends up landing you with a insanely rotated object that you have to hunt for a "reset this viewport for the love of god please!" button. Either that or deal with that fact that you're gimbal locked and just try to unwind the frantic mouse movements you just made.
- zoom - one of the first things I had to do was hunt down the way to change how the mousewheel worked in inventor. By default, scroll up zooms out.. why? anyhow, luckily this was asked before me and there is an option to fix it (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/Scroll-wheel-rev