maya 8.5+bonus tools

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ZackMcCracker
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maya 8.5+bonus tools

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When i installed the spacenavigator to maya 8.5 i lost my bonus tools menu.I uninstalled it and it came back? I cant have both?
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Hi ZackMcCracker

Please specify which driver version you installed?
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Re: maya 8.5+bonus tools

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i installed the maya 8 drivers from PE 3.1.1(beta)
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Now installed 3.1.3 beta still same,bonus tools menu dissapears and 3d control appears.??
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Hello ZackMcCracker,

Unfortunately we were not able to reproduce the issue you describe. Would you please tell us what you do to get to the bonus tools menu? I expected you to refer to the 'Download Bonus Tools' link in the 'Help' menu but that one didn't disappear.
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Bonus tools is a series of extra tools for maya,when you download and install them,a dragdown menu appears up side along,clor,create UV's etc.When i installed the 3dconnexion spacenavigator drivers it dissapears and 3D control drag down menu appears and the bonus tools menu vanishes.

Well maybe this is just my problem??
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Would you please be so kind and tell me where to download these Bonus Tools?
Thank you.
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Hi ZackMcCracker

We have reproduced the issue you reported. We will look for a solution to fix it.
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Re: maya 8.5+bonus tools

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ZackMcCracker wrote:When i installed the spacenavigator to maya 8.5 i lost my bonus tools menu.I uninstalled it and it came back? I cant have both?
Hi,

It’s the age old usersetup.mel issue: If a second usersetup.mel exists then one isn’t executed. Generally this issue bites us (we don’t load), but in this one case our usersetup.mel gets executed and the one from the bonus tools doesn't. Our usersetup.mel is in the %ProgramFiles%\Autodesk\Maya8.5\scripts directory.

Extract from the usersetup.mel in the %ProgramFiles%\Autodesk\MayaBonusTools8.5 \scripts


////////////////////////////////

// bonusTools userSetup.mel

////////////////////////////////

//

// if you have an existing userSetup.mel file you will need to append

// this code to have all the bonusTools available

// cut and paste the contents of this file into your existing userSetup.mel

// and restart maya to get the full effect

….

So there is no real solution to this other than cutting and pasting everything from the bonus tools usersetup.mel into %ProgramFiles%\Autodesk\Maya8.5\scripts\usersetup.mel. If you have a personal usersetup.mel then paste to that instead (as well won't hurt). The maya help will tell you where you can find it.

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Re: maya 8.5+bonus tools

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Got it and it works!

Thanks!!
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