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The main menu changes to display the menu set for Polygons. Menu
titles such as Select, Mesh, Edit Mesh, and so on, appear.
For now, leave the menu set at Polygons. You will use this set in the next
step.
To create a primitive 3D object from the Polygons menu set
1 Select Create > Polygon Primitives > Interactive Creation and ensure that
a check mark does not appear beside this item.
For this lesson, you wont use this option.
2 From the Main Menu Bar, select Create > Polygon Primitives > Cube >.
Maya creates a 3D cube primitive object and places it at the center (origin)
of the Maya workspace.
Status Line
The Status Line, located directly below the Main Menu bar, contains a variety
of items, most of which are used while modeling or working with objects
within Maya. Many of the Status Line items are represented by a graphical
icon. The icons save space in the Maya interface and allow for quick access to
tools used most often.
In this lesson, you learn about some of the Status Line areas.
Youve already learned the first item on the Status line: the Menu Selector
used to select between menu sets.
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