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#1

Hi All

Apologies for the incredibly basic problem/question. I’m trying to install mGear on Maya 2023 and am not seeing the menu or shelf. In the plugin manager, mgear_solvers is ticked and I can load an mGear rig and manipulate it, use it. Basically, it feels like mGear is half installed. I cant open the mGear UI or create a rig or anything like that. All I’ve done to install mGear, is to drop the drag_n_drop_install.py into the workspace and follow the prompts. I have installed PyCharm using the AutoDesk Desktop App.

Have I missed a step or is it significant that I’m on Windows 11, is there any other potential problem that I’ve missed?

Thanks, Robbie

EDIT: Just found this thread re Maya 2022, and tried everything listed. No joy…

#2

just to confirm, pymel is installed?

#3

Apologies- typo, I put pycharm instead of pymel. To clarify, if you click on the pyMel option on the Maya installer, does that install it, or merely download it? I just tried to use the pymel library in the maya scripting window and it isn’t recognising it.

#4

probably that is the issue, if import pymel.core as pm fails means that you don’t have pymel installed. Please try to re-install maya and add pymel

#5

Thanks Miquel. I just used the command in the Maya docs and now I can see mgear;

To install the PyMEL package on Windows

From the command prompt, change directory to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya\bin and run

mayapy -m pip install “pymel>=1.2.,<1.3.”

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#6

Hey @robbie @Miquel I have PyMel installed already in my maya 2023. When i drag and drop the mGear installer into maya, it does say installation successful but alas I do not see the mGear menu. Do you know what I might be missing? Thanks!

#7

Hey thanks a lot, using this script in the command prompt solved the problem. Thank you!