In SolidWorks designdes draw in the "Front" view not the top. If it's your internal design department you can talk to them about that.
In the mean time.
Transform - Bet Views - All - Entities - Front - Top - Origin - Origin.
Your moving (transforming) the geometry between views fromn the front to the top and moving the origin to the origin (i,e. not moving the origin).
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