Importing from Maya

I have been following the FAQ on here on how to import maya files into unity but everytime I try to do so Unity freezes and does not import the file. This happens even with small files so I know its not a size issue. Any suggestions? Nothing special about the files, just a cube I'm trying to import to test it.

Why do you need Maya files? You can use Autodesk FBX plugin.

Which Unity and Maya are you using?

Freezing Unity indicates that it starts Maya, but then Maya doesn't convert mb to fbx. There might be several reasons for that:

  1. You don't have fbx plugin (I really doubt that)
  2. You're using Unity 2.6 and Maya 2011 - this combination doesn't work very well. It is fixed in Unity 3.0. Just export from mb to fbx manually.