USD for Maya and 3ds Max updates

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The USD team at Autodesk is proud to announce the release of USD for Maya 0.33 and USD for 3ds Max 0.12.

With USD for Maya 0.33 our installer comes with two versions of USD. This is a split from the norm for us to have multiple versions of USD but we wanted to get some of the new animation spline support that comes with recent versions of USD. This new dual installation is only for Maya 2026 which includes USD 24.11 and USD 25.05. The default is still 24.11. Download this release and see the release notes with instructions on using 25.05 here: Release Version 0.33.0 · Autodesk/maya-usd · GitHub

In USD for 3ds Max 0.12 we added a new feature called Duplicate to USD that mimics the same feature in USD for Maya. This allows you to send objects in your Max scene directly into a stage in your scene. See this new feature in a new learning video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys2qdBVlv5g

You can download USD for 3ds Max 0.12 here: Release 3ds Max USD v0.12.0 · Autodesk/3dsmax-usd · GitHub

We hope you enjoy this new feature.

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Hello, is it only for Maya 2026.2 ? Or does it work with 2026.1 ?

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Sorry I did not see your message until today.

Maya USD has always been compiled against the latest current SDK for any given major release. This means that during the active major release cycle, each new release comes out against that major release’s latest versions/SDK. Unfortunately, this means that the builds are only guaranteed to work with the latest update for this release (in this case, Maya 2026.2).

For our builds for previous releases, we always build against the last update that was released for that version.

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Thank you for the reply!