Category: Maya
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Microsoft .NET 10 Updates for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya
Microsoft has announced that support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 will end on November 10, 2026. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide servicing updates, security updates, or technical support for these versions. Many Autodesk products include components or dependencies that rely on Microsoft .NET technologies. As part of this commitment to providing…
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Guardrails for Using AI in Autodesk Plugin Development
This post outlines curated guardrails for the effective use of Copilot and other agentic AI tools when developing plugins and extensions for Autodesk authoring applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor. I used ChatGPT to help refine the wording. Consider it quiet LLM cannibalism. :) These guardrails can be enforced by placing them in your…
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Maya 2026 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2026 with some extra info. The details could be found here. Building environment On the macOS, Xcode has been updated to 14.3 or higher. Other platforms remain the same as Maya 2025. Windows – Visual Studio 2022 (17.8.3 or higher) macOS –…
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Maya 2025 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2025 with some extra info. The details could be found here in the document. Building environment In Maya 2025, the building environment changes on Mac. Operating System Requirements Windows Visual Studio 2022 (17.8.3 or higher) | macOS Xcode version 14.3 or higher…
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Using Maya template for creating deformer UI
Recently, a customer asked a question about creating UI for deformers. The deformer nodes in Maya are created with a table for deformer attributes e.g., But for deformer plugins, if you don’t have an AETemplate assigned for it, it looks like this, which is not as easy to understand and has extra, but unnecessary details……
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How to build PyQt5 for Maya 2024
Maya 2024 is shipped with Python 3.10 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2024, we still can’t use it to install PyQt5 on Mac or Linux. On windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed and it may lead to problems. You may want to…
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Maya 2024 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2024 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Building environments In Maya 2024, we made significent changes on the building environment. The minimum supported version of CMake has been updated…
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