You can hold down the space bar to bring up the Hotbox. If you click and hold on the center Maya button, you get quick access to all orthographic views. It's not the Viewcube, but it prevents having to swap between viewports constantly. Maya saves any objects you copy to some file somewhere, which Maya uses as a permanent…
@ Joopson Which is why I asked specifically for examples of other people using Maya. So I could see what stuff doesn't trigger crashes and just do that. It's my fault for posting to the wrong forum. Post in technical talk, get technical answers. That's not what the thread was supposed to be about, but since people are keen…