Auto-start Pipeline with maya

userSetup.py

"""
This file, if placed inside maya scripts directory,
will launch Pipeline during Maya startup.

We use utils.executeDeferred so we won't interrupt the maya loading sequence.
"""
import sys
import maya.utils as utils

def startPipeline():
	
    # if you need to start maya from a place that is not the maya script folder,
    # uncomment the following two lines
    #path = 'path/to/where/pipeline/folder/is/located' #<-- change this to your path
    #sys.path.append(path)
	
    import pipeline
    pipeline.start() 

utils.executeDeferred('startPipeline()')