Project 1D: COMPAS Timber
COMPAS TIMBER is an open-source package for modeling, designing and fabricating timber frame structures.
COMPAS TIMBER is written in Python and and is a part of the COMPAS ecosystem. It also features an implementation for Rhinoceros 3D as a Grasshopper plug-in.
COMPAS TIMBER is an active research project within the NCCR Digital Fabrication and is being continuously developed at Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich. At the current stage, the library encompasses tools for fast and intuitive design of frame structures with simple joints using custom object classes for beam, joints and assembly entities to maintain parametric and semantic information about the structure. In the future, it will be expanded to entail interfaces to structural analysis software and specialist timber construction software, assembly sequencing methods, fabricability checking tools and more.