mjmiddle
Ansys Employee

Your command doesn't look right. It should be:

settings = Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.Graphics3DExportSettings()    # only has background controls
ExtAPI.Graphics.Export3D(file_path, Graphics3DExportFormat, settings)

However, there are no settings to determine the view orientation, and I don't think the avz file format even supports this. It's just a simple format that contains the deformed mesh shape and contour.

Any view would be controlled be the Ansys Viewer application. However, I see no scripting capabilities in this application and no way to set the default view orientation.