This repo contains code for reading and writing to various kinds of component files.

The prefabricated component industry has long needed a common file type to help interface the various systems found throughout the industry. Each equipment manufacturer in the industry has had to rewrite this same code to allow their products to work with data from multiple software providers. Any component manufacturer wanting to build their own tools has had to do the same in order to interface with existing systems. With this library, all of that duplicated effort will be consolidated into a single place. While a single ubiquitous file type has yet to emerge and garner widespread support, this code will bridge the gap between different software systems in the industry.

This project is in the early stages of development. In the near future, this library will provide the ability to read and write much of the data contained in

• .tre
• .kxr
• .trs

and other truss component files.

This is a community project. We know our handspun solutions for reading and writing these files likely contains bugs and could use some improvement. That is why we invite you to consider contributing to the effort. If your company has written its own parsing solutions, consider how much more efficient and bug free those solutions could be if that code was located where people could inspect and improve it.

If you have suggestions, questions, or thoughts of any kind, jump in the chatroom and say hi. Or you can create an issue in our issue tracker

##Check out the wiki for details on getting started!