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Maya creates a cylinder primitive object that is octagonal in shape and
positioned at the center of the Maya workspace. This cylinder is 20 units
wide by one unit high, and has eight faceted sides.
NOTE You were instructed to reset the option settings as a precaution in
case they had been set differently. This is a good habit to practice when
working with tool options to avoid getting a result that was different from
what you expected.
The Toolbox: Layout shortcuts
The Toolbox is located on the left hand side of the Maya user interface. It
contains icons that open tools for transforming your objects within Maya
(selection, move, rotate, scale) as well as layout shortcuts for changing the
views and panel layouts.
The Quick Layout buttons shortcuts allow you to select a different panel or
switch to another layout.
You need to finish positioning the cylinder. To do this you need to see the
object from a side view to make sure it is sitting exactly on the ground plane.
To change the panel layout to view the base from a side view
1 From the Toolbox, click the Four View layout shortcut.
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