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Importing a DAE File into Maya 2016

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 07:19:21 GMT

Hello,

I'm new to Maya2016 and I downloaded a model that came as a .dae file and tried importing it into Maya using Import and selecting "DAE_FBX" as the import file type.

When I did this Maya stopped responding, I tried a couple of times after that with the same results.

Am I doing something wrong and is there a soultion/way to import .dae files?

Thank you.

Re: Importing a DAE File into Maya 2016

arybak89 — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:33:34 GMT

You ever figure this out? I'm having the same issue. When I import I get this:

Nothing appears in the scene or outliner.

Re: Importing a DAE File into Maya 2016

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:47:44 GMT

I had the same issue. What I did to fix it was choosing my OS from this link (GitHub Dropbox of ColladaMaya). This will take you a list of versions of this plugin. I chose the last version, opened the folder and then downlowaded the .mll object only.

When it's done downloading, go to windows-> settings-preferences -> Plug-in manager in Maya. Once the window opens, click the bottom left button "browse", so you can see the folder where your plugins are being storaged. There is where you have to paste the .mll you just downloaded. When you are done pasting the .mll object there, click the refresh in the Plug-in manager box, and then search the plugin called COLLADAMaya.mll and load it.

Then import the object like you would usually do, but choose OpenCOLLADA importer instead of DAE-FBX. It worked for me, good luck.

-DallosAna

Re: Importing a DAE File into Maya 2016

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:31:35 GMT

Hi, I need 2 extensions one and this colladaDAE and the other and this XML DAE I need to export a project created with maya 2016