Maya FBX Import on startup

lowpolymatt

Hey Guys,
I'm trying to get a script to run on startup that will import an fbx for me.
I've got my mel script, it's sourced in userSetup.mel

But it wont load the FBX. Isntead I get an error:
// Error: file: C:/Users/Name/Documents/maya/2018LT/scripts/importFBX.mel line 1: Cannot find procedure "FBXImport". // 

The Mel script contains the following:
FBXImport -file "E:/Directory/my.fbx";

Anyone got any ideas why FBXImport can't be found and how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance

throttlekitty

userSetup runs before plugins are loaded, that's why it can't find FBXImport I don't think there's a way to change that. You might want to try setting an alternate default scene instead.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/MayaLT/files/File--New-Scene-htm.html

kio

im not sure why youd want such a behaviour but well whatever

did you play around with evalDeferred? if I remember correctly this could work?