T.D. Bryant

⚡️Teaching engineers the “The eCAD-to-Dock Framework™”⚡️

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

I’m interviewing Makers & Builders for the rest of the year.

Who’s building something real that I need to talk to?

Drop names or tag them below 👇

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

Howdy Palmer, this is exactly the intersection we're building around at Advanced Industrial Markets. We're developing a Texas-based supply network for PCB/PCBA, wire harnesses, connectors, and high-reliability electronic components, focused on BOM resilience and domestic second sourcing.

I'd like to put that network to work for Anduril. Who on your electrical supply chain team should I speak with?

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Anduril works with hundreds of small businesses in a dozen different ways, from tech development to supply chain to weapons testing. And sometimes we buy them!

We don't fetishize vertical integration, hit us up if you think your startup can find common cause.

[Riana 🥭 @rianalynn]

I think about food the way engineers think about infrastructure. Nobody notices it until it fails. I want to be building the part that never fails.

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

I just got @tdbryant from the X Handle Marketplace! Get your own at https://t.co/Ei6RqsBm5g

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

United States Space Academy 🇺🇸

[Riana 🥭 @rianalynn]

a supplier database that takes 6 months to build can be obsolete in 60 days. supply chains don't wait for spreadsheets.

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

@DarrelFrater DM

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

2027 Line Card 🔥

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

@boardyai Please do!

[T.D. Bryant @tdbryant]

I’m interviewing Makers & Builders for the rest of the year.

Who’s building something real that I need to talk to?

Drop names or tag them below 👇

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity.

Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → https://t.co/zGKVOGSxfW

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This is what @SpaceX's Starbase, Louisiana spaceport will look like.

It looks absolutely incredible. Multiple launch pads, and one beautiful location.

[Josh Kaplowitz @jjkaplowitz]

We are building a moon base. We are going to Mars. We will become a space civilization and I am going to be part of making it happen. This is the time.

Hop on the adventure.

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

I've been doing business in Texas for 8 years and this what it's like doing business in every city:

Austin: C+ / B-

Vendors are okay. Not good, not great.

Houston: A

This is my favorite place to do business in Texas. New York in Texas. Love it.

Dallas: F

Run away. If you think it's working out, you're wrong, it just needs more time to blow up in your face.

San Antonio: NC

Never happens. I try to make it work especially since I'm based in Austin, but it never comes together 🤷‍♂️

[Matthias @MatthiasWagner]

Hardware!

[Rina @irinatoxi]

The scary part about AI in CAD is not that GPT can extrude a shape. It is that it can now build a mechanism where multiple parts actually have to agree with each other.

Using GPT + Autodesk Fusion MCP, this project turns into a mechanical iris assembly with a base plate, eight overlapping blades, a drive ring, a cover, mounting holes, and relationships between the components.

One blade is easy. The annoying part is repeating it around the same center, keeping every pivot aligned, fitting the mechanism between the surrounding plates, and making the whole assembly stay coherent as more geometry gets added.

That is where MCP starts getting interesting. GPT is no longer treating Fusion like a place to dump some 3D geometry. It is working inside the actual CAD structure, where components, relationships, repeated parts, and the assembly itself all matter.

That is a much bigger deal than text-to-3D.

Because once an AI agent can reliably build and modify mechanisms instead of isolated shapes, a surprisingly large chunk of mechanical CAD starts looking like something you describe, inspect, and correct rather than model feature by feature.

[Flux | Design PCBs with AI @BuildWithFlux]

A render tells you the design is valid. Holding the board tells you whether you were right.

That gap is the entire problem with hardware, and it's why there's a table like this in the office.

You can't debug a physical object from a screenshot.

[Grok @grok]

Use Grok 4.6 for CAD

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

Fable 5 designed a completely functional mechanical watch in CAD

Inspired by the Omega Speedmaster Professional, the "Moonwatch" that NASA astronauts wore on the Apollo missions

Claude is still the king of CAD

[sphinx @protosphinx]

This is Partmode.

https://t.co/YHMMeY7yTx is free and open-source, browser-based parametric CAD with a SolidWorks-style workflow: constrained sketches, editable feature history, parts, structured assemblies, exact B-rep geometry, production drawings, and standard CAD interchange.

Built for both people and agents.

- Free & Opensource
- Browser Based
- Agent first CAD

Use an agent to drive it.

Version 0.1

Repo links below. Star it. Contribute.

[Xueyan Zou @xyz2maureen]

🔥We’re open-sourcing Multi-Agent CAD, a text-to-CAD pipeline that generates 3D assets for about $0.15 each—at roughly 1/13 the cost of CAD Skills, with faster inference and higher accuracy 🚀

This project began when our lab recruited Guanxing for his CAD expertise 🛠️ to build connected parts for robot learning project 🤖. He contributed far beyond modeling, combining strong CAD skills with agent-workflow design to help build the multi-agent pipeline.

Code: https://t.co/tiqvA2IRl5