topic Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9 in FBX Forum

FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:12:13 GMT

Hello!

I'm using Maya 2023 and Unreal Engine 5 which both are using Python 3.9

But I can't find the SDK here : https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technologies/fbx-sdk-2020-3

If you install it for Windows, it is compiled until Python 3.7 only
Please compile it !

-hans

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

ross-g — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:07:22 GMT

Unfortunately until Autodesk decide to provide pre-compiled bindings for a variety of Python versions (I think it's reasonable to expect they should pre-compile for all Py versions their DCC support, but they do not...) your only real choice is to build it yourself.

Sadly they also don't provide any documentation on how to build it yourself, but there is some info out there. This is the best I was able to find (worked for me on a recent version):

https://www.ralphminderhoud.com/blog/build-fbx-python-sdk-for-windows/

The other benefit to building yourself is that you can add bindings for the methods that Autodesk has just forgotten to include themselves.

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:34:27 GMT

I figured, here it is for those interested,

and NOT thank you Autodesk, this is not serious at all.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rlvj4aoui3w32js/fbxsdk_py3.9_py3.10_.7z?dl=0

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

wangjunjie04 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:54:11 GMT

Was just looking for it today and you posted it right on time, thank you!

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

wangjunjie04 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:56:57 GMT

Oh seems a password is needed for the zip file, can I have the password pls

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:48:30 GMT

I edited the link, sorry about that

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

MortenBohne — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:00:09 GMT

Hey, I tried the versions from your dropbox link, but couldn't get any of them to work. I tested them in maya2023.2 (python 3.9.7 (tags/v3.9.7:1016ef3, Aug 30 2021, 20:19:38) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)]) and blender3.30 (pyhon 3.10.2 (main, Jan 27 2022, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)])

but both places i got the error

# Error: DLL load failed while importing fbx: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
# # Traceback (most recent call last):
# # File "<maya console>", line 5, in <module>
# # ImportError: DLL load failed while importing fbx: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

It was the same error i ran into when i tried to build it myself a while back on a different machine. Did anyone get it to work on these versions?

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

scottdunn449 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:27:55 GMT

Thanks all for the solutions

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

beautifulrobot — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:28:38 GMT

hey hans - when i download the zip all the files show 0 bytes. not sure if i'm doing something wrong?

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:35:16 GMT

try again to download, indeed the file were weird.... it's fixed

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

beautifulrobot — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:38:07 GMT

that works! thx for posting this!

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

rafaellozano3d — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:03:28 GMT

God bless you man

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

lukasamsa1 — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:43:46 GMT

First of all, thank you very much for this solution, it made my project possible, but unfortunately only on Windows. I was wondering if anyone had any success in compiling the python fbx sdk (python 3.8+) for Linux? Any help would be much appreciated!

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

regalir — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:30:21 GMT

With the latest released version 2020.3.7 that can be downloaded now, the FBX python is now pre-compiled for Python 3.10 and comes in a wheel archive so it can be installed with a pip install command. We also upgraded the FBX Python bindings so they can be compiled with SIP 6.6.x for your specific Python interpreter version (see the instructions in the README.md)

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard8NPBT — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:23:55 GMT

what pip command ?

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

regalir — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:27:59 GMT

pip is a Python module (and most likely you already have it). To install the FBX Python you should run:

python3 -m pip install fbx-2020.3.7-cp310-cp310-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard8NPBT — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:42:16 GMT

thx I would never have guessed the name of that package !
any documentation about that ?

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

regalir — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:55:09 GMT

You mean about the FBX wheel or pip?

When you download and extract fbx202037_fbxpythonsdk_linux.tar.gz, you end up with:

regalir@localhost 2020.3.7]$ ls -l total 34284 -rw-r--r--. 1 regalir regalir 34997334 Mar 12 17:25 fbx-2020.3.7-cp310-cp310-manylinux1_x86_64.whl -rw-rw-r--. 1 regalir regalir 105 Mar 12 17:33 FBX_SDK_Online_Documentation.html -rw-rw-r--. 1 regalir regalir 96856 Mar 12 17:33 License.txt -rw-rw-r--. 1 regalir regalir 1610 Mar 12 17:33 README.md drwxr-xr-x. 10 regalir regalir 184 Mar 12 17:25 samples [regalir@localhost 2020.3.7]$

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

hansgodard8NPBT — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:01:40 GMT

I know pip 🙂
was more curious about this module name , but as long as it works 😆

fbx-2020.3.7-cp310-cp310-manylinux1_x86_64.whl

Re: FBX Python SDK for Python 3.9

zcc06280301 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:51:55 GMT

Hello, does the FBX Python SDK support python3.11?