Check your installed Python version.
import sys
print (sys.version)
If you are using python 3.0 or higher I don’t know what more to try. If it’s less than 3, that’s your problem.
Also, as an aside, make sure you have these check boxes checked so if an error does pop up it is described in detail.
Also still having this issue~ am able to successfully install and enable the plugin but a menu set does not appear. Has anyone found a recent solution to this? (Currently using MacOS Ventura 13.1)
Any solutions so anyone?
We have several Windows PCs where mGear just won’t show up. Using Maya 2022 with Python 3.7.7
Thank you
Hi welcome. Please provide more information.
import mgear and see if it gives an error. Or is it just the missing menu?If we can’t figure out a pattern, or a way to reproduce it, we can only guess. I think there was one thread where someone solved it. But it was something to do with their Maya.env setup.
it could be an issue with pymel not loading correctly, check the path entry in your enviroment variables.
I have the same issue - menu isn’t showing
mgear_4.0.9
Dragdrop installation in fresh 2023.3
3.9.7 (tags/v3.9.7:1016ef3, Aug 30 2021, 20:19:38) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]
Plugin mgear_solvers.mll is listed and loaded
The same version is working in 2020
Menu Set Editor is also not listing mGear
Would it even install if pymel wasn’t installed?
Im 99% sure that i installed it but how could i check for it?
the installed don’t use pymel, but you need pymel to launch mGear after is installed
so is there a way to check if it’s installed? Since the menu isn’t showing up.
Any ideas on what I could do to make it appear?
And its also not showing in the output window as it did in 2020 ;/
import pymel.core
If that returns an error, it’s not installed.
but when i use install ISO i have no option to pick it up.
Is there a manual way to install it? and if, could you plz give me some advice on how to do it properly?
I was having the same problem of the menu not showing up even though pymel was installed.
I just ran the mgear user setup in the script editor and it appeared.
Yes there is no longer an option to install Pymel in Maya. You have to do it manually. You can download Pymel here. Release 1.4.0b1 · LumaPictures/pymel · GitHub
And installation instructions are inside that package in a file called install.rst
/pymel-1.4.0b1/docs/source/install.rst
More info in this thread: Maya 2024 Looks Promising. Will mGear be available for it like previous versions? - #25 by i3D
Thanks a lot to everybody ;D
im at step 3. where i need to run setup.py but there is no such file:
i have only setup.cfg
Could it be that pymel is installed but the fact that i block all connections for maya via firewall that it isn’t working?
When starting the setup i saw this little message.
When I try to run the “user setup” it tells me the Pymel module is missing
Sorry my advice was for Maya 2024, where you now have to install Pymel manually. I have no idea why it isn’t installed for you in 2023.
That message in the installer means you would need an internet connection to use “pip” to download and installed Pymel.
Don’t follow my advice blindly. I haven’t even tried this yet. I’m still using Maya 2020 and 2022. 
I reinstalled Maya and now i don’t get the error for missing Pymel anymore. But:
A line 217 error no ;( any ideas`?
I also tried setting it up manually by using userSetup.py but im getting the same error
Have you tried to see if it was successful? Maybe mGear is installed already.
If that “Installation Complete” message ran, then it seems like the drag_n-drop_install.py script ran successfully. That’s the last line in that function.
The error might be from del myTempEDPF which is… what? Maya’s wrapper for dragging Python files?
(Just guessing. I install mGear through Maya.env.)
Try restarting Maya and maybe mGear is installed.
import mgear and see if you get an error. (If you don’t get an error, then it is installed, but you are still experiencing the missing menu problem.)No error no menu
this error when running import mgear
sry i found this same error from befor when starting maya
// Error: RuntimeError: file C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2023\Python\lib\site-packages\pymel\internal\pmcmds.py line 217: deleteUI: Object ‘mGear’ not found.
here the full log in a .txt file . i placed it on google drive
I deleted everything and dragged the py again and now i didn’t get the import mgear error but still missing the menu.
plugin was also active already not like last time where i had to active it manually but still got the line217 error.
