COMPAS Timber

COMPAS TIMBER is an open-source package for the design-to-fabrication of timber structures.

A project is designed and refined in a single digital model that also produces the manufacturing data, so it can go from first concept to fabrication without re-modeling or back-and-forth rework along the way.

This site documents the compas_timber Python library, the modeling, joinery and fabrication engine. Here you will find the API reference and contribution guides. The library is written in Python and is part of the COMPAS ecosystem.

To use COMPAS Timber in Rhinoceros 3D / Grasshopper, get the plug-in on food4rhino or through Rhino's Package Manager, and follow the timber_design documentation for installation and tutorials. The plug-in is developed in the separate timber_design repository.

COMPAS TIMBER is an active research project and is being continuously developed at Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich.