Hello, I am currently planning an additive manufacturing project that will use compas.
I have been looking into compas 2 and noticed a lot of functions that were available in Compas 1 are not yet implemented.
What is the current development timeline for compas2? Is there a plan of porting all functionality from 1.17 LTS or will functions only be added when they come up in the projects of maintainers and contributors?
I would also like to contribute to Compas2, especially in testing and rewriting older code for the new version. Is there a fundamental change in architecture between Compas1 and Compas2?
If this is documented somewhere please let me know, my brief search did not yield any answers.
Thanks for posting on our forum. Really happy to hear you’re planning to user COMPAS for your project.
Could you provide some examples for functions that you used in 1.17 and are not available yet in COMPAS 2? Some things have moved around but I’m not aware of a lot of things that are missing.
Also, are you planning to use the core library only or are you looking at any of the extensions? Another possible scenario is that an extension might have not been updated yet to support COMPAS 2, but there aren’t many of those under compas-dev.
Finally, we do have some high level overview of the major changes in COMPAS2 somewhere, I’ll find it and post a link to it here.
Here’s an excerpt from the slides presented in the latest general assembly of the COMPAS Association illustrating the main changes in COMPAS2 vs. COMPAS1.
There’s also some information there regarding COMPAS2 support status of the extensions maintained by the COMPAS Dev team.
Let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with.
Hi @chenkasirer, I wanted to share my thoughts on the transition from COMPAS 1 to 2. I personally found it to be a smooth and well-supported process, especially from the user’s perspective.
However, according to the slides you provided, I noticed that compas_slicer has been highlighted on the last page. I’m curious to know where I can find information regarding the status of compas_slicer. Could you please share any updates you may have?