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# Animate Bones and Markers : Animate Bones in Maya

1. Make sure you have correctly imported the bone models, following the instructions.
2. Select one of the bones.
3. Select **imp** from the XROMM\_Tools shelf tab. Select Browse to File and navigate to find the filtered rigid body transformations csv file exported from XMALab.&#x20;
4. If you exported the rigid body transformations from XMALab as a combined file, rather than a single file for each bone, then "**Import Subset of data columns**" and enter the appropriate column numbers for the bone you selected.
5. Select Data type: “**Matrix** (from svdRigid)” and Apply to: "**selected object**"
6. Click "Preview original file" to look for column headers; check or uncheck (as appropriate) box for **Column Headers in Row**
7. Click **Import** button.
8. Repeat these steps for the other bones in your Maya scene. \
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9. Play your animation to see motion. You may need to expand the time range to include all of the animated frames (436 frames for the pig example data).\
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