Alignment off upon object placement

I just started to do a new project for a lower 3rd title. I placed a shape and opened up the 3d adjust tool. When i tried to rotate the object (along the x axis) the object wasn't aligned straight (i could see the back of the 3d circle instead of it just looking like a line as it would if i were looking straight on.) I checked both the object and the camera in the inspector and none showed any rotation. Further more when the object was rotated to what looked like 90 degrees it was actually at 80.3 degrees.
any ideas?
thanks

Have you checked the camera's position? If it's off center, then that might explain it. An object will only look like a line if viewed at 90 degree rotation at the center of the frame.
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