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Uninstalling the HowTos

It is easy undo the work of the installation scripts. The steps needed to uninstall everything are explained here.

uninstall.sh

The uninstall.sh script will:

  • uninstall pip
  • uninstall the pip packages of the samples
  • remove pystartup.ms

The menu items in 3ds Max will not be removed automatically (the steps needed to remove them are explained at the bottom of this page).

Removing pystartup.ms (manual uninstall)

For 3dsMax before 2025

After the installation, pystartup.ms will be copied to:

"$HOME/AppData/Local/Autodesk/3dsMax/2022 - 64bit/ENU/scripts/startup"

It can simply be removed from there.

Note: pystartup.ms finds the pip packages in the Python environment. If they expose a 3dsMax startup entry point the entry point is called during the 3ds Max startup.

By removing this file none of the HowTo packages will be started automatically when 3ds Max starts.

For 3dsMax 2025 and greater

Starting with 2025, pystartup.ms is no longer needed. Instead the adn-devtech-python-howtos directory is copied to "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins".

It can be manually removed by doing (from gitbash):

rm -fr "$ProgramData/Autodesk/ApplicationPlugins/adn-devtech-python-howtos"

Removing pip (manual uninstall)

The installation script also install pip in user mode.

You can also remove pip (although this is not really recommended). To remove it:

# current directory needs to be maxinstallationfolder/Python37:
./python.exe -m pip uninstall pip

Removing the individual HowTos (manual uninstall)

The HowTos can be uninstalled individually by calling:

# current directory needs to be maxinstallationfolder/Python37:
./python.exe -m pip uninstall reloadmod-autodesk

Note that the full package name should be the name of the package directory followed by -autodesk.

Uninstalling all the HowTos at Once (manual uinstall)

The uninstallhowtos.sh can be used to uninstall all the howtos at once. This will automatically call ./python.exe -m pip uninstall for all the HowTos packages.

Getting rid of the menu items and the action items in 3ds Max

Menu items and action items added to 3ds Max are permanent. Cleaning up the menu items needs to be done manually from the user interface (Customize > Customize User Interface > Menus).