I was looking for an E+ model editor for a Mac user and remembered IDF+. It is a new implementation of the IDFEditor in Python by Matt Doiron, a number of important features that are absent in the original:
https://github.com/mattdoiron/idfplus
My question is whether it supports Mac? I cannot see why not but would be grateful if someone can confirm it before recommending it to the person. Thanks!
I just downloaded and tested. YES, IDF+ does work on mac!
Steps to download and install:
The last one launches IDF+. I had to locate the idd file from energy plus to open an idf file. It looks like you can also put idd files in /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/IDFPlus/ and it will find them there. It also copies the idd there once you've located it so you don't need to locate the idd again for that version.
Hi! Unfortunately I do not have access to a Mac, so I can't test the editor. However, as @JasonGlazer mentioned, it's built with Python and PySide, which both should work on any platform. You would need to be familiar with Python in order to install it at this time however (setup.py, etc).
I have recently gotten the editor working with modern versions of Python (3.7) and PySide2 (5.13), which are more easily installable so I expect that it will also work via Pip when I get it posted on PyPI. Also, because BitBucket has announced the end of support for mercurial, I will be migrating things to git (and likely github), where I can take advantage of some automated built tools more easily. This should allow me to make proper installers in a more stable way.
I presume it will work since Matt is using Python and PySide which are supported on Mac. You might have to download the repo and the dependencies to try it out since no specific installer is provided.
Asked: 2019-11-09 10:32:50 -0600
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Last updated: Oct 07 '22
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