To install the Python_Toolkit:

1. Compile:
   1. BHoM
   2. BHoM_Engine
   3. BHoM_Adapter
   4. BHoM_UI
   5. Rhinoceros_Toolkit
   6. Grasshopper_Toolkit
   7. Python_Toolkit (this repo)
2. Open a UI of your choice (e.g. Grasshopper)
3. Run the BH.Engine.Python.Compute.InstallPythonToolkit component and wait for the installation to finish
4. The installation has succeeded if the install packages include:
   • Python 3.7
   • jupyterlab
   • matplotlib
   • Python_Toolkit
5. Restart your UI or recompute the script

To check whether all went well you can run the component BH.Engine.Python.Compute.Import with an input of a string as Python_Engine, and check that it succeed without errors

There are two main events to install the toolkit:

1. Compiling the toolkit. This does two things:
   • It builds the dynamic libraries required by .NET and copies them to C:\ProgramData\BHoM\Assemblies
   • It packs the python files in the toolkit and copies them to C:\ProgramData\BHoM\Extensions\Python\src
2. Installing the Toolkit from the UI. This is performed by running the InstallPythonToolkit method. This will:
   • Download Python and install python
   • Download and install pip
   • Install the necessary packages (e.g. jupyterlab)
   • Install the python bindings of the Python_Toolkit from C:\ProgramData\BHoM\Extensions\Python\src This contains all the code that is currently developed in the toolkit in python

You will need the following to build BHoM:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or higher
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and above (included with Visual Studio 2013)
• Note that there are no software - specific dependencies (only operating system relevant), this is specific: BHoM is a software agnostic object model.

BHoM is an open-source project and would be nothing without its community. Take a look at our contributing guidelines and tips here.

BHoM is free software licenced under GNU Lesser General Public Licence - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html
Each contributor holds copyright over their respective contributions. The project versioning (Git) records all such contribution source information. See LICENSE and COPYRIGHT_HEADER.