Travis A. Walters
Civil engineering → mass timber → marine & parametric DFMA. Self-taught programmer through 3d modeling. I build small tools at the seam between manufacturing knowledge and computational geometry.
My working stack is rhino, grasshopper, and claude. My operating location is Colville, Washington – Stevens County, eastern edge of the Cascade rain shadow. My day job is at Raider Boats, where I build parametric design systems for configured-to-order manufacturing.
The thing I’m actually practicing is a specific design discipline: prefer planes to solids, prefer curves to surfaces, prefer pure math to either. A grasshopper definition built under this rule is welded to nothing – it can be rewritten as javascript, gcode, svg, or a unity asset without losing fidelity. That portability is the substrate of every small tool I ship, and it’s what I write about here.
Most people with manufacturing knowledge can’t build software. Most people who can build software have never touched a boat or a timber frame. The overlap is the interesting place to work from.
What this site is for
This is the philosophy mode of a larger working frame – notes, small tools, and case studies for the kind of person who quietly runs a $3-8M manufacturing company and already suspects their quoting process is held together by one retiring engineer.
If that’s you, there’s nothing to buy here. Read a few things. If something rhymes with your situation, you’ll find the contact details.
- Where
- Colville, WA · Stevens County
- Day job
- Raider Boats — parametric DFMA
- Sending
- fullyparametric.com for services · brfr.app for instructions
Get in touch
Working on something that rhymes with the above? Say hello. Goes straight to my phone.