The whole team at FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS would like to wish you a merry Christmas, happy holidays and a good start into a successful new year for you and your business! We are looking forward to good continued and new cooperations…

CAESES/FRIENDSHIP-Framework Users’ Training was held in Hongqiao Guest Hotel, Shanghai on 1st, Dec. 2014. Over 40 engineers from more than 20 companies related to naval architecture or offshore engineering attended the training. Dong Jiang, the support engineer from FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS…

We have released a new maintenance version of CAESES/FFW. Detailed version information is given in the changes log. Download The new version contains additional tutorials for coupling OpenFOAM to CAESES/FFW, as well as new examples projects for partially parametric modeling…

Today’s engineering firms have embraced optimization as a critical component within simulation-driven design. Although the algorithms are reasonably mature and well understood, the different methods for the shape variation of critical surfaces and components are not. This whitepaper gives a…

Coming up soon: With the next major release, FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS will provide the first version of its freeform deformation, greatly complementing the existing shift transformations of CAESES. This new functionality allows users of CAESES to easily deform imported CAD geometries…

Today, Pointwise Inc. and FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS have signed a software sharing agreement. Pointwise’s meshing software generates structured, unstructured, and hybrid meshes; interfaces with ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats such as CGNS; runs…

Today, former FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS team member and EMship (European Masters Course in Integrated Advanced Ship Design) student Hélio Bailly Guimaraes presented a paper about “Retrofitting Vessels for Optimized Fuel Consumption” at the 2nd International Symposium on Naval Architecture and Maritime,…

With our new website we also want to focus on our brand “CAESES”: The pro edition of our software is called “CAESES / FRIENDSHIP-Framework” (short: CAESES/FFW). It has been formerly known as “FRIENDSHIP-Framework” only. Our free edition is tagged “CAESES…

We have launched our new website! With these new pages, we now want to give our users and all interested visitors easier access to our product information. We hope you’ll enjoy it! Your FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS team.

We have released a new maintenance version of CAESES/FFW which can be downloaded here. More detailed version information is given in the changes log.