Travis W.
Tool maker for small fab shops.
Day job: production Rhino and Grasshopper work in a custom fab shop. The tools listed here are the same ones I use on the shop floor. They ship when they survive a week of real fabrication without me reaching for the source code.
The thread across everything I make: human configuration errors are expensive and preventable with constraint logic. Whether that is a sheet-metal unfolder that picks the right side of the bend, an identity stamp that survives explode-and-rejoin, or a fit-checker that catches a part collision before steel is cut, the work is shaped by the same idea -- small shops deserve serious tools that do not lock them into recurring rent or proprietary file formats.
Perpetual licenses where possible. File-portable formats. Local-first software. No phone-home, no telemetry, no logins.
Elsewhere
Listings on dfma.tools
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Pillbug
Coming soonUnfold Rhino sheet metal parts to flat patterns ready for CNC.
-- Soon -
Elephant
BetaRhino models that never forget. Durable object IDs and a JSON change log on every save, plus an optional cloud tier with cross-model search.
Free Beta -
Retriever
Coming soon1D linear-stock cut nester for Rhino. Tag stock geometry with profile + length, get a kerf-aware cut recipe with waste %, by-location index, and printable HTML output.
-- Soon -
Osprey
BetaLive spatial object browser inside Rhino. Tree, search, filter, bidirectional selection sync.
Free Beta -
Squirrel
AvailableA grab-bag of eight free Rhino quality-of-life commands. Find/replace names, 3D dimensions, lay-flat, select-by-user-text, Pillbug-ready sheet metal sublayer scaffolding, and more.
Free Available