What's up with that annoying VIEWCUBE in Civil 3D??!!!

Have you ever had issues with the view cube and UCS Icon not being in agreement??  The little "twist" to the view cube was making me crazy.  Here a solution that worked well for me:

1. On the command line, enter the command “GEOGRAPHICLOCATION”
2. Depending on the current status of your DWT or DWG, you will have one of two dialog boxes appear.
3. Select "enter the Location values"
4. The "Geographic Location" dialog appears, and you will probably see there is a tiny angle set in the North Direction field.
5. Hit OK
6. Hit ENTER (GEOGRAPHICLOCATION) again
7. Now you will have a dialog box pop up to edit, define, or remove the geographic location.  Go to Edit and you will see where you can make that correction.

This whole system is used to tie Google Earth images into drawings. It is not tied into the survey settings.

Just a quick note on this bug...

It seems to happen whenever you open an older drawing in C3D 2011 (or if you create a new drawing from a template that has not been upgraded to 2011 format).  The result is the view cube is twisted, and if you click on its "Top" view, it will rotate your drawing to a weird angle.

The simple fix for this is to go to the Ribbon View tab, and select "Top" there.  That will "fix" the view cube, and it should behave normally from then on.

Just want to turn the darn thing off???  Go to you options menu (OP), go to the 3D Modeling Tab and on the bottom left you can choose to turn it off!!!

Good luck.  Hope this helps!