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Find a page…
1. Download the latest version of the
Ladybug Tools plugin on Food4Rhino.
Home
2. Inside the download, you will find an
1.1 Windows Installation Steps
installer.gh file. Open it in Grasshopper
and and you will see two components 1.2 Mac Installation Steps
with True/False toggles connected to
Mac Installation Steps
them. Go to the first component and set it
Optional Steps
to True by double-clicking on it.

1.3 Verifying Your Installation

1.4 Compatibility Matrix

Clone this wiki locally

The component will take a second to run while https://github.com/ladybug-tools/lbt-grasshopp

it downloads Python to your machine. Python


is the computer language in which Ladybug
Tools is written and is one of the fastest-
growing programming languages.

3. When the component finishes, it will tell


you the next steps, the first of which is to
unzip the build of Python that just
downloaded to your machine. Navigate to
the location noted in the output of the
component. This should be
/Users/[USERNAME]/ladybug_tools/pyt
hon.zip but with your own username for
[USERNAME] .

Unzip the file INTO THE SAME PLACE AS


THE .ZIP file. At the end you should have
something that looks like this:

4. Go back to the installer.gh file and set the


second toggle to True:
This component will take a few seconds to run
as it downloads the Ladybug Tools core
libraries into the Python installation that you
just unzipped. This component also
downloads all of the Ladybug Tools
Grasshopper components. Lastly, a library of
default assets (constructions, schedules,
modifiers, etc.) will be downloaded to
\ladybug_tools\resources\standards .

5. Restart Rhino and you should see the


Ladybug Tools components available in
new tabs. Congratulations! You now have
a working version of Ladybug Tools.

Optional Steps

1. Install Radiance - If you want to be able to


run daylight and solar simulations, you must
install Radiance. Radiance is a physics-based
rendering engine, which is what Honeybee
uses for all daylight and spatial solar studies.
Check the compatibility matrix to determine
which version of Radiance is compatible with
your version of Ladybug Tools. Download that
version of Radiance from the Radiance Github.
Run the Radiance executable and accept all of
the defaults.
2. Install OpenStudio - If you want to be able
to run energy simulations, you must install
OpenStudio. OpenStudio is a programming
interface for EnergyPlus, which is the engine
that Honeybee uses for building energy
simulation. Check the compatibility matrix to
determine which version of OpenStudio is
compatible with your version of Ladybug
Tools. Download that version of OpenStudio
from the OpenStudio Github. Run the
OpenStudio executable to completion. While it
is not required, when you get to "Installation
Folder," we recommend installing it in your
[USERNAME]/ladybug_tools folder in order
to keep all of your Ladybug Tools resources in
once place (though the default location is
acceptable). Note that you should use your
own username for [USERNAME] .
3. Install URBANopt - If you want to be able
to use the Dragonfly "Run URBANopt"
component to run urban district energy
simulations, you must install URBANopt.
URBANopt is software package that leverages
OpenStudio and EnergyPlus to model the
energy use of urban districts. Download the
latest URBANopt executable installer from the
URBANopt documentation and run the
installer to completion, accepting all of the
defaults.

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