BRG-ZHCODE

BRG workshop at ZHCODE

Prerequisites

CAD

• Rhino 8

Python Environment

• Recommended: Miniforge
• Alternative: Anaconda or Miniconda

Code Editor

Visual Studio Code with the following extensions from Microsoft:

• Python
• Pylance
• C++ Extension Pack

C++ Compiler Setup

This is only needed on Friday...

Windows

• Install Visual Studio
• During installation, select "Desktop development with C++" workload

macOS

xcode-select --install

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Installation

We will repeat the installation process during the workshop. However, it is useful to already test that the installed tools work properly.

If you are totally new to conda, please refer to the getting started instructions.

On Windows, use the Anaconda Prompt instead of the standard Commdand Prompt or Windows Powershell to run conda commands. On Mac, you can just use the Terminal.

Create an environment

Using conda, create an environment zha-intro, and install python3.12 and compas_occ from conda-forge.

conda create -n zha-intro -c conda-forge python=3.12 compas_occ -y

Activate the environment

You can have many environments in parallel. Therefore, you need to activate the environment you want to use.

conda activate zha-intro

Install packages

Except for compas_occ, the core packages of the COMPAS Framework can be installed directly from PyPI using the compas_framework meta package.

pip install "compas_framework>=0.1.3"

This will install

• compas >= 2.13
• compas_cgal
• compas_gmsh
• compas_libigl
• compas_model
• compas_session
• compas_shapeop
• compas_viewer

Test the installation

Launch an interactive Python interpreter.

python

When the Python interpreter is active you will see the Python prompt (>>>). Import some or all of the installed packages and print their version.

>>> import compas
>>> print(compas.__version__)
'2.13.0'
>>>

Exit the interpreter when you're done.

>>> exit()

C++ / Python binding

• Step-by-step tutorial.