COMPAS Assembly Data-Structure

• Why
  • represent hierarchical relationships between elements
• What
  • a flat collection of elements
  • abstract linkage or connection between elements
  • a tree structure to represent the hierarchy
• How
  • model is structured as a tree where the root is treated as a special node:
    • Model:
      • _elements = OrderedDict() # a flat collection of elements - dict{GUID, Element}
      • _hierarchy = ModelTree(self, name) # hierarchical relationships between elements
      • _interactions = Graph(name=name) # abstract linkage or connection between elements