Hi, I insalled mgear and it shows up as installed in maya preferences, however there is no mgear tab
I’ve restarted maya and I’ve reinstalled maya with pymel 3 but I still can’t see mgear
Please help ?
Hy, I’m not sure if I should reply here or in that link but I already have PyMel installed but the issue isn’t resolved
I guess when you say this, you mean you see the plugins loaded. The plug-in solvers and the mgear Python modules are separate things.
To test if the mgear modules have loaded or not, can you please test this line of Python?
import mgear
Do you get an error when you run that?
Hello Chris
Yes, the plugin solvers are loaded in the preferences menu but also maya tells me that pymel for python 3 is installed when I reinstall maya just like in the image on the download page.
When I use the test line, I get this error: # Error: ModuleNotFoundError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\Python37\lib\site-packages\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport_feature_.py line 142: No module named ‘pymel’ #
I suppose maya recognizing pymel for python 3 as installed and the pymel modules are separate things as well?
Looks like pymel is not installed. If Maya installer is telling that is installed, must be an error on the Maya Pymel installation.
I see, is there perhaps a simple way to fix this?
under program files>Autodesk theres a file that says pymel for python 3 and inside it is a py that says ‘pymel’ I’m not sure where this file should really be placed
Maya does not install the pymel by default, you will have to install it by hand, I will leave you how to do it, if it does not work, remove ./ from the start and simply try the code.
open a cmd window and run these commands
cd ‘C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2022\bin’ (this one might be different on your system if maya is in a different location)
./mayapy -m pip install --upgrade pip
./mayapy -m pip install pymel
I’ve had this problem as well . Mgear menu not showing up in Maya and I have pymel 3 installed.
Seems to be a problem with userSetup.py not running. If I run the Mgear userSetup.py in the script editor
the menu loads and I can use Mgear.
Latest Maya version has some security update to prevent running malicious code in the userSetup.py but that can also affect other plugins like mGear using userSetup.py
You can configure it, just search it on the official Maya documentation 
Hi Miquel.
I tried all that, Turned Security off and it still didn’t work ,hence running it in the script editor.
Other parts of the usersetup are working ,just not Mgear for some reason,
Sorry to hear that @craigb
I am planning to change the way that mGear loads in the future
Not ETA but here is the ticket if you want to follow the progress