How to get the swapNamespace flag to work with cmds file import in Maya

Question

..The command should look something like this,

cmds.file('E:\Stuff\ASSET.FBX', i=True, swapNamespace=['ASSET','Taco'])

It successfully imports ASSET.FBX as ASSET to my Outliner. But I'm always given this error:

Error: The -swapNamespace flag could not find the specified namespace to swap to: "Taco"

Does anyone see where I'm making my mistake? Or perhaps have a working example? I need this object renamed. Thanks you.

What happens if you create the namespace first with `cmds.namespace(...)`? — Daniel Skovli, Sep 23 '21 at 03:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '22 at 11:26

This error only means that there isn't elements in you set with namespace Taco.

If you goal is only to import your ASSET.FBX file with namespace ASSET then simply use the namespace parameter:

cmds.file('E:\Stuff\ASSET.FBX', import=True, namespace='ASSET')

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