Grid from text Examples

This document gives instructions for combining the graph drawing tool on https://csacademy.com/app/graph_editor/ with pgm-ds. Please note that the graph drawing tool is not linked to the power-grid-model project. This example solely illustrates how to use their editor to create a simple graph which can be loaded into power-grid-model-ds using a .txt file.

Creating input data for pgm-ds

Drawing a grid

The graph editor on https://csacademy.com/app/graph_editor/ is a very intuitive and easy to use tool for quickly drawing a grid. A graph can be created by defining branches between nodes.

If you follow a specific syntax, you can use the input from the graph editor to transfer your drawing to pgm-ds:

• A substation node should be prefixed with S

  • e.g: S1, S2

• A line is defined as <from_node> <to_node>

  • From nodes can be both regular nodes and source nodes

  • e.g.: S1 2, 3 4

• A transformer is defined as <from_node> <to_node> transformer

  • e.g.: 8 9 transformer

• A grid opening is defined by adding open

  • e.g.: 4 5 open for lines or 6 7 transformer,open for transformers

Loading a drawn grid into pgm-ds

There are two ways of loading a text grid into a pgm-ds:

• load grid from a .txt file

• load grid from a list of strings

Load a grid from a .txt file

Copy the Graph Data of your grid to a text file (e.g. my_grid.txt). For the example above, the file should contain the following data:

S1 2
S1 3 open
2 7
3 5
3 6 transformer
5 7
7 8
8 9

Then, using python’s pathlib module, navigate to your file and load your grid

from pathlib import Path

from power_grid_model_ds import Grid

txt_file_path = Path("../../_static/my_grid.txt")
grid = Grid.from_txt_file(txt_file_path)

Load grid from a list of strings

You can also load a grid directly from a list of strings

from power_grid_model_ds import Grid

grid = Grid.from_txt(
    "S1 2",
    "S1 3 open",
    "2 7",
    "3 5",
    "3 6 transformer",
    "5 7",
    "7 8",
    "8 9",
)

print(grid)

3 6 14,transformer
S1 2 10
S1 3 11,open
2 7 12
3 5 13
5 7 15
7 8 16
8 9 17