CAESES Editions and Licenses
The PRO version of CAESES® offers various licensing configurations. You can try CAESES with all Add-Ons for free for 2 weeks.
Standard Edition
Pricing is available upon request. You can try CAESES for free for 2 weeks.
Download CAESESThe standard edition includes essential CAD capabilities, CFD coupling, and automated design study strategies. It also features free form deformations for optimizing existing geometries such as from STL or IGES data.
- Geometry modeling
- Software connection
- Design studies
- Basic variation and optimization strategies
- Free form deformation / morphing
- Unlimited number of design variants
- Batch mode (Non-GUI)
- Adjoint optimization
- Additional Export Formats incl. Colored IGES/STEP and CONVERGE Format
- Detailed documentation and sample models to get started with
- Premium support (Email, Help desk, Video call)
Powerful add-ons tailored to your industry and application
Based on a powerful standard edition, you can add further functionality according to your application and industry. Pricing is available upon request.
Maritime
For naval architects and maritime CFD experts that want to design and optimize ship hulls
- Ship Modeling Workflow
- Generalized Lackenby for Advanced Ship Hull Deformations
- Hydrostatic Calculations
- Sectional Area Curve
- Righting Lever Curve
- Automated IMO rule checking
- Hard Point Check
- Section Generation from Surfaces or STL Data
Turbo
Design and optimization of any rotating machinery, like pumps, turbines, compressors, fans and blowers
- Turbomachine Workflow for axial and centrifugal blades
- Variable radius root fillet
- Calculation of maximum feasible fillet radius
- Endwall contouring
- Analysis tools for imported blades
- Extraction of angle distributions
- Calculation of the throat area
Propeller
Design and optimize conventional, high skew, tip rake, surface piercing, or toroidal propellers.
- Advanced Propeller Workflow
- Toroidal Propeller Workflow
- Variable radius root fillet
- Calculator for the main particulars
- Cavitation analysis using the Burrill diagram
- Minimum thickness calculation according to class rules
- Propeller slip calculator
- Determination of the expanded area ratio
Advanced Optimization
For powerful automated shape optimizations
- Advanced optimization strategies incl. response surfaces
- 2D Charts and Correlation Plots
- Parameter studies and sensitivity analysis
- Single- and Multi-objective optimization strategies
- Dakota GUI Interface
- Optional use of surrogate models (e.g. Kriging, polynomials, neural networks)
- SSH Resource Manager
Insight
Intelligent, data-driven engineering workflows from real-time optimization to AI-powered surrogate modeling
- AI surrogate models
- Data-driven engineering capabilities
- Reusable pipeline-based optimization workflows
- Advanced data analytics
- Intelligent filtering
- Multi-objective optimization
- Response surfaces
- Principal Component Analysis
- Gaussian Process Surrogate
Advanced Project Security
Protect your CAESES projects with an encryption and flexible configuration of access rights
- Project encryption
- Configuration of access rights
- Restricted access to user IDs
- Project Access Passphrase
- Limitation of the clipboard usage
- Locking of feature definitions
Looking for a different CAESES setup?
Contact usPower Edition license offers sophisticated optimization features, including the Maritime add-on for enhanced ship hull optimization, or Turbo add-on for the advanced design of various blade shapes.
- Includes Standard Edition
- Add-On Advanced Optimization
- Add-On Maritime or Add-On Turbo
We offer batch mode licenses if you want to use CAESES as a geometry engine in combination with your optimization tool of choice. This allows you to run up to several hundreds CAESES instances at the same time, e.g. for creating geometry variants on HPC clusters.
- Full functionality of CAESES
- Non-GUI mode
- Automated geometry variant creation
- Run optimizations on HPC cluster
CAESES for academia
In addition to the commercial editions, there are academic teaching licenses, and academic research licenses for funded research.
Academic Teaching License (ATL)
Intended for hands-on teaching in a classroom environment. It also includes maintenance and premium support.
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Academic Research License (ARL)
Intended for academic R&D projects. The academic research license can be combined with an academic teaching license.
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Student and PhD Student License
For students and PhD candidates. Includes the entire functionality of CAESES without any limitations.
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