Translations:Manual:Navigating in the 3D view/3/en

The FreeCAD 3D space is an euclidian space. It has an origin point and three axes: X, Y and Z. If you look at your scene from above, conventionally, the X axis points to the right, the Y axis to the back, and the Z axis upwards. In the lower right corner of the FreeCAD view, you can always see from where you are viewing the scene: