[Question] Isaac Lab Installation and Vscode Setup

[evanzijianhe]

I installed the Isaac Sim by using pip install method, and also installed the Isaac Lab following the instruction. I was able to run the testing code to verify the installation. However, I have some questions regarding Vscode setup:

1. Do we still need to run the setup_python_env in the IsaacLab and IsaacLabExtensionTemplate if I was using pip install? I tried, it was impossible to properly execute it, because _isaac_sim symbolic link was missed. Does it mean we still need to install the IsaacSim using omniuniverse-launch and setup path for _isaac_sim?
2. Can we install IsaacSim use both pip and pre-built binaries methods?
3. When I import functions from omni.isaac.lab class, those function are unknown( but program can be executed). Is this normal?
   

Can someone helped to answer those questions? Thank you very much!

[Mayankm96]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this. I made some fixes in this MR: #628

Could you please confirm this works for you as well?

[evanzijianhe]

Hi Mayank. Thanks for your helps. I have tested this fix. There was no .vscode fold in the isaacsim fold in anaconda, so I could not find anaconda3/envs/isaaclab/lib/python3.10/site-packages/isaacsim/.vscode/settings.json.

However, I found that the settings.json file exits in the isaacsim/extscache/omni.kit.window.extensions/ext_template/vscode/settings.json, so I manually created a .vscode fold in the root of isaacsim folder and copy the settings.json to there. Then, everything is fine.

[evanzijianhe]

After doing above setup, I found
there is a error in the vscode which was caused by tuple:

replace [ ] by ( ) can fix