In his latest blog post, one of our developers has just revealed an amazing little Christmas gift for all our CAESES® users: A summary of “Effective Feature Programming”. It’s a great read for improving your Feature Definitions in CAESES®, while…
STL Import and Shape Deformation: Latest Work
Some of our customers use CAESES® for shape optimization of existing geometries, we sometimes refer to it as a partially parametric approach. Typically, a geometry gets imported into CAESES®, using one of the various STL formats. The geometry is then…
Flow Transformer for Improving Emissions
FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS regularly watches out for interesting design challenges on which to check CAESES® for bugs and missing functionality. Last week one of our IT guys stumbled across an interesting device to improve emissions as introduced by VW. After watching…
Asymmetric Profiles for Impeller Design
In one of our recent customer projects we needed to design a parametric impeller for a CFD-based optimization. The shape of the leading edge had to be asymmetric, which – so far – had not been smoothly supported by CAESES®…
A Simple but Great Way to Organize your Projects
When you start working with CAESES®, you will notice that the project with all its objects can get quite messy after a while. Typically, you create scopes (in CAESES®, these are some kind of directories) to organize things a bit…
Video Blade Design Tutorial
With CAESES® 4.0, there is a lot of new and cool stuff for turbomachinery blade design. This post will give you a brief introduction into the fully-parametric design of an impeller blade, as you can typically find them in turbochargers…
Ship Hull Design: Twin Skeg Study
In one of our recent projects a colleague created a fantastic surface model of a twin skeg ship hull. As a special request, the customer wanted to vary the twin skeg in order to conduct studies. After putting together some…
New Video for Volute Modeling
We have a new video that gives you a very brief introduction to the basic concept of volute modeling in CAESES®. The main idea is that, first of all, a 2D cross section is parameterized by the user. Any kind…
OpenFOAM Connection: Introduction
Hi together, This post gives you a very quick overview of connecting OpenFOAM® to CAESES® for the purpose of CFD automation. In general, connecting an external software to CAESES® only takes a few minutes, and with this you can immediately…
Write Your Own Export Routine
When it comes to exchanging data between CAESES® and other tools (e.g. for meshing & simulation), CAESES® users typically choose from a set of export formats (*.stp, *.iges, *.stl,….). However, specialized in-house tools often require the use of a proprietary…