Quite often our users want to use a parametric CAESES® model and fit this model into their existing geometries. They import the geometry data using either a common CAD format (STEP, PARASOLID,..) or some proprietary format, and then they start…
Propeller Design: Comparison of Blade Sections
If you need to compare one propeller design with another one – e.g. a new design candidate that is derived from the baseline – it helps a lot to have the 2D section information at hand. When you set up…
Drone Blade Design
In our last blog post we briefly discussed and illustrated a smart parametric model of a F1 rear wing, which has been set up for the purpose of optimizing the aerodynamic characteristics of the race car. We received a lot…
Parametric Design of a F1 Rear Wing
One of our colleagues (who is really crazy about motor sports) currently works on the optimization of a rear wing design for a F1 race car. Basically, he imported the entire car geometry and simply replaced the initial rear wing…
Ship Hull Optimization: Generalized Lackenby
Most of our maritime CAESES® users probably know about this shift transformation for optimization of ship hulls: the Generalized Lackenby. It has been part of CAESES® for many years now, and it helps naval architects to modify an existing (e.g.…
aXatlantic: Ocean Drone Project
Here is a nice little project of a German engineering team where CAESES® has been involved recently, for the purpose of shape optimization: aXatlantic. This project is about building an ocean going drone, even aiming for a world record for…
Approximation of Images
Recently, one of our customers reported a serious issue with the import of large IGES files (~6000 surface patches) in CAESES®. The import was quite slow, and a subsequent shift transformation for optimization purposes almost impossible. After a quick debugging…
Christmas Gift: Effective Feature Programming
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…