
Click the Modify button to install the extension. The extension installer should start once you quit.Press the Close button and Quit Visual Studio.

You must Accept the license agreement by clicking on the Install button.Find RhinoCommon and Grasshopper templates for Rhino 7 and select it.In the Search field, search for RhinoCommon.In the left-hand sidebar, expand the Online section, then select the Visual Studio Marketplace entry….Navigate to Extensions > Manage Extensions.The RhinoCommon and Grasshopper templates for Rhino 7 contains wizards to get you started creating components quickly. When successfully installed, click the Launch button. You will need the “.NET desktop development” workload for RhinoCommon based plug-in development. Follow the onscreen prompts to install Visual Studio.Run the Visual Studio installer you downloaded from Microsoft, in this case VisualStudioSetup.exe.Click the Community button to download the installer. Visual Studio Community Edition is free from Microsoft for students, open-source contributors, and small teams.Different from the older CEA interface, this version has each CEA functions as a stand-alone component.For the purposes of this guide, we will presume you are using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition. You can find the CEA interface under the Tab City Energy Analyst. Make sure you have CityEnergyAnalyst v3.2.0 installed to the default directoryĬopy the file cea-grasshopper.ghpyto the Grasshopper Libraries folder “%APPDATA%\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries” Please follow the next steps for the installation of the CEA interface for Grasshopper/Rhino 6. The three-step workflow includes installation, CEA-file-making, and CEA energy demand simulation.


We have stopped maintaining this older version. You may ignore the previous version for Rhino 5, which I introduced in the blog titled “Grasshopper-CEA Part 2”. In this post, I am going to introduce how to export your Grasshopper geometries to CEA files and perform CEA energy demand simulation in Grasshopper in one workflow.

While working from home, we have upgraded the interface of CEA for Grasshopper in Rhino 6. How is everything going? We hope everyone is safe and healthy.
