cad-rust-app (JonasMerrell)MCADConfidence: Medium

A DXF $INSUNITS of micrometres came in 1000x too big, elliptical arcs crossing zero imported as the opposite half, mirrored entities flipped X, and one bad ASCII STL vertex shifted every vertex after it.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Mechanical Designer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

JonasMerrell/cad-rust-app PR #72: Imports: DXF mirrored entities, ellipse arcs, units, paper space; ZIP limits; STL parsing

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 1-2 2026 (Nov 1 8:41 AM ET through Nov 2 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-02: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.