import instances in unity from maya

I am exporting the instances from Maya 2012 with the FBX exporter checking ‘preserve instances’, and dragged the fbx from the assets folder to the unity scene, but i can’t see anything in the scene, I can only see the instance in the file structure, No objects. Don’t know this is the right way of importing instances in unity. plz help.

You should export by selection and make sure everything that you want to export is checked in the Maya FBX exporter, my guess is you’re trying to export the whole scene which you don’t want, because you don’t want any cameras or lights, or you’re not exporting the meshes correctly.