Manual installation for developers

Use this installation guide if you want to add COMPAS TIMBER for development purposes.

Note

See also details on COMPAS development here .

1. Fork the COMPAS TIMBER repo and clone the fork.

2. Navigate to the COMPAS TIMBER repository folder:

   cd ..\path-to-compas-timber
   

3. Install development dependencies and COMPAS TIMBER:

   pip install compas@git+https://github.com/compas-dev/compas@main
   pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
   

Rhino & Grasshopper

4. Build ghuser components for Grasshopper:

   invoke build-ghuser-components
   

   (Requires IronPython: install from e.g. here, and make sure it is added to the environment variables).

5. Reference COMPAS TIMBER and its dependecies to Rhino and Grasshopper:

   python -m compas_rhino.install
   

   or

   python -m compas_rhino.install -v 7.0
   

   if you need to specify Rhino version (for example 7.0).