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When you start Maya for the first time, the workspace displays by default in
a perspective window, or panel. There are the other components of the default
perspective view panel:
The panel is labeled persp at the bottom to indicate that you are viewing
the Maya scene from a perspective camera view.
The panel has its own menu bar at the top left corner of the panel. These
menus allow you to access tools and functions related to that specific panel.
The grid is displayed with two heavy lines intersecting at the center of the
Maya scene. This central location is called the origin. The origin is the center
of Mayas 3D world, and with all objects directional values measured from
this location.
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