From 460aef700db3db538cf084a743a6079d134cb0dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Athey <tom.l.athey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:03:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 Note: Some parts of this package, including the `ThermoFisherVerios` class which helps implement this method on a Thermo Fisher scanning electron microscope depend on the proprietary package `autoscript_sdb_microscope_client`.
 
+## Example Installation using venv on Windows
+
+1. Create virtual environment using venv with python 3.10
+```
+<Path to python 3.10 executable e.g. C:\Users\Support\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe> -m venv <venv name e.g. venv_310>
+```
+2. Activate environment
+```
+<venv name e.g. venv_310>\Scripts\activate
+```
+3. Upgrade pip
+```
+python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+```
+4. Go to code directory
+```
+cd <path to SmartEM>
+```
+5. Install code in editable mode
+```
+python -m pip install -e .
+```
+6. Check that smartem was installed (optional)
+```
+pip list
+```
+7. Run example script
+```
+python examples\smart_em_script.py
+```
+Note: we use `python -m` in order to call `pip` through our environment's interpreter. If you omit this, you might be running a different version of `pip` that exists outside your environment.
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-- examples/smart_em_script.py: SmartEM script for running the SmartEM pipeline
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+- examples/smart_em_script.py: SmartEM script for running the SmartEM pipeline