Access CEA using the Pycharm Interface

In order to access and work on the source code of CEA from Pycharm, you have to open it as a project and set the interpreter to the CEA environment.

1. Download and install Pycharm Community edition if you haven’t already.

2. Open PyCharm and open CityEnergyAnalyst source code as a project.

3. Open File>Settings>Project:CityEnergyAnalyst>Project Interpreter>Project Interpreter.

4. Click on the settings button (it looks like a wheel) next to the current interpreter path, and click Add.

5. Click System Interpreter from the left hand list and select existing environment.

6. Point to C:\Users\<you>\Documents\CityEnergyAnalyst\Dependencies\Python\python.exe for Windows or /Users/<you>/Documents/CityEnergyAnalyst/Dependencies/Python/python for MacOS.

7. Click apply changes.