Introducing CAESES: A platform for simulation and data-driven design

Altair is pleased to welcome FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG as the latest addition to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). Within the APA, FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS will offer its flagship software product CAESES, an integration and automation platform that includes simulation-ready variable CAD, optimization algorithms, and post-processing. Users can utilize CAESES together with other simulation tools – most often in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – to design and develop better products faster and more cost effectively.

CAESES provides users with unique capabilities to efficiently and smartly parametrize very complex geometries, e.g., with free-form surfaces, that are typically challenging to parameterize in traditional CAD tools, as well as a robust platform for their flexible and controlled variation. CAESES’ geometry parameterization and variation capabilities will allow users to intelligently investigate design spaces in a data- or simulation-driven design approach in a novel way.

Several of CAESES’ top features include:

• Parametric Modeling: Smart, efficient parameterization of even the most complex geometries (e.g., free-form shapes), suited for automated generation of geometry variants.
• Geometry Morphing: Modification of imported geometries through a toolbox of flexible, easy-to-use morphing methods.
• Constraint Handling: Consideration of geometrical constraints (such as those due to manufacturing or packaging reasons) to ensure feasible design variants.
• Simulation-Ready Export: Geometry export that can directly be fed to coupled simulation tools without manual preparation steps, for frictionless process automation.
• Simulation Interfacing: Open, user-configurable interface to couple to arbitrary external simulation tools.
• Optimization: Wide selection of optimization algorithms and methods for design studies and geometry processing.