Also, right click the camera icon in the left hand side toolbar whilst the camera is activated to change options for where to keep focus when moving and tumbling etc.
I haven't had time to look at the loop approach, but I managed to get a group of points to get beveled in the new bevel SOP.
Attaching file - is this what you want to do?
polybevel_pointGroup.hiplc
Group -> Name -> For Each Loop -> Primitive SOP/VOP manipulation of points and prims is what I'm thinking , but hard to know without more info. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question?