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text-to-cad (earthtojake)MCADConfidence: Medium

On Windows, every cadgen snapshot fails because the OCP wheel cannot save an image to a stream, though saving to a file works. Installed via the Claude Code plugin, so the agent can build the model but cannot look at 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
earthtojake/text-to-cad Issue #709: Windows: `cadgen snapshot` always fails with "OCCT could not hand its picture over" (OCP can't save an image to a stream)
github.com
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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.