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Tertius-Web (d-b-w-gain)VerificationConfidence: Medium

a coding agent designing through a CAD API is blind: it can read bounds and volumes back, but numbers catch wrong sizes, not a part on the wrong side, flipped, floating or buried in another, as found porting a 139-part, 6-assembly SolidWorks project over the API.

Impact Analysis

Persona
Hardware Engineer
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
d-b-w-gain/Tertius-Web Issue #405: Render named views and sections of a compiled model to PNG for agents
github.com
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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digest, Oct 25-26 2026 (Oct 25 daytime to Oct 26 morning slots). Verified live 2026-10-26: issue/PR read on GitHub; title and state confirmed.