The phrase "to orient the" is acceptable and can be used in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence like this: "We used a compass to orient the map."
This allows scientists to orient the spacecraft's cameras and antennas.
But Ms. Mitchell defended her intention: to orient the contemporary viewer.
Without a visible world to orient the story, absence becomes the principal subject of the novel.
In each cell microtubules in the cytoplasm help to orient the nucleus before it divides.
As familiar as he is with the course, even he struggled to figure out which way to orient the device.
That solves a common decorator's problem -- whether to orient the seating to face the television or the fireplace.
The Landaus wanted, for example, to orient the home with a direct view of a small pond on their property.
But the historical detail needed to orient the reader and characters sometimes weighs heavily on her delicate prose.
A light source is available to orient the robots towards the base.
To orient the samples to geographic coordinates, we used paleomagnetic directions.
This procedure was shown to be sufficient to orient the dipoles by Nilsson et al. 2013.
