Introducing CAESES: A Platform for Simulation and Data-driven Design

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.