--- description: Get detailed information about CAESES usability, features, price, benefits and disadvantages from verified user experiences. Read reviews and discover similar tools on Capterra United Arab Emirates. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: CAESES Price, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra United Arab Emirates 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Engineering CAD Software](/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) > [CAESES](/software/177131/caeses) # CAESES Canonical: https://www.capterra.ae/software/177131/caeses Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/177131/caeses?page=2) > CAESES is a flexible CAD and optimization solution for fast and comprehensive design studies with CFD or other simulation tools. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 8 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses CAESES? CAESES is a CAD and optimization solution for simulation engineers that need to run design studies. The geometry generation can be fully automated and is robust (no broken or infeasible designs). ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 8 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG - **Founded**: 2003 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $2,000.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Contact Friendship Systems for pricing details - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Germany, United States ## Features - 2D Drawing - 3D Imaging - Animation Software - CAD Tools - Data Import/Export - Design Management - Mathematical Modeling - Presentation Tools - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Version Control ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) ## Related Categories - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) - [3D CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/31236/3d-cad/software) - [Marine Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30580/marine/software) - [Simulation Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30607/simulation/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I often find myself with only a third of a screen devoted to the geometry window itself: the rest is taken up by the model tree and the definition window. Furthermore, CAESES allows you to create scripts in which geometry can be defined or manipulated. This is prominently used for meta-surfaces, which have the user defining a cross-section in a script and drawing this curve over space curves or functions to create the surface. Combined with f-splines (fairness-optimized splines), this allows complex hull surfaces to be created very cleanly and with extremely smooth results. Imported geometry can be modified using free-form deformations. And, drastically modifying the shape can be done by changing the value of a single parameter. On top of this, CAESES can connect to external solvers, to process the geometry made or modified in the CAD functionality. An extensive optimization package aids in varying the identified parameters and coming up with an optimal design. Finally, the CAESES support team is very helpful, knowledgeable, and quick to respond if you run into something you can't fix or need assistance with. > > **Cons**: As a CAD package, CAESES is not the easiest to learn. It requires you to think about every piece of geometry you create, and thus "quickly" creating a shape in CAESES is not what it excels at. Building up a good hull model for a ship from scratch takes time and some careful thought. Therefore, it will not necessarily be suited for everyone, especially if you prefer a more sketch-wise or ad hoc approach to making geometry. The geometry itself can be slow to respond to changes, and thus making changes to a more complex model requires a certain amount of patience. Also, it can be easy to "break" the geometry if you change parameter values to something unrealistic. The precise definition of the geometry, a blessing in some situations, can also be a curse in others: for CAESES to accept a shape (particularly solid shapes) as valid, the definition has to be near-perfect. This can be frustrating when trying to close a hull shape for use in for instance CFD codes. > > When we started using CAESES, we used it primarily to prepare hull geometries for CFD calculations in FINE/Marine. As we grew more experienced in its use, we found many more situations in which CAESES has really helped our design process. Its parametric nature led us to first develop several "families" of parametric hull forms, all defined using meta-surfaces. These can quickly be modified to different dimensions or specific requirements of different vessels, while retaining the same character. For concept design, this is incredibly powerful, and I have started using CAESES as the first tool I reach for after the first talks with a client. The resulting shape is then always CFD-ready, allowing us to integrate CFD very early in the design cycle. This is made even more convenient by the software connection to FINE/Marine, which essentially gives you CFD results of whatever hull form you have with the click of a button. Then, extending this to full parametric hull form optimizations requires almost no additional effort. In short, if you have the time and mindset to overcome the steep learning curve, CAESES is a very powerful tool for the naval architect. It is a CAD system in a very true sense of the word, being a tool not just for defining digital geometry, but for complete computer-aided design. ----- ### "Parametric design as it should be" — 5.0/5 > **Bodo** | *21 September 2018* | Shipbuilding | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: CAESES offers a perfect mix of GUI based model development and full control over each parameter of the model. It offers very powerful objects such as meta surfaces that allow to define very sophisticated shapes in 3D based on parameters and parameter curves defined by the user. My personal favourite is writing programs within CAESES using "features". The programming language is easy to learn and allows to access all methods and parameters of the object-oriented CAESES model. CAESES creates 100% water tight models that can be readily used in CFD packages without the need for time consuming repairs. This is essential for applying the automatic optimization strategies supplied with CAESES. Many CFD packages can be easily integrated. Chances are high that you can continue to use your personal favourite CFD package. The support in the forum never leaves any questions open, because the developers of the software are active members of the forum themselves. The software is under active development and now covers diverse application areas such as ship hull optimization, propeller optimization and turbo machinery. However, CAESES isn't limited to such applications - you can create any kind of model you need. CAESES runs under Windows and Linux. > > **Cons**: Don't expect a full-fledged volumetric CAD software - that's not the aim of CAESES. Most of the time you are dealing with surface models that are connected into water tight 3D objects for simulation. However, the 3D operations using breps and solids have imroved a lot over the years, such that it is possible to perform 3D boolean operations, for example. > > I am using CAESES for ship hull optimization for 8 years now and I never regretted my decision. I analyzed over 4500 variants of a fully parametric hull model using two different CFD packages. The parameter variations, CFD model creation and simulation were fully automated. ----- ### "CAESES – Code and flow-optimize your CAD" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *21 September 2018* | Maritime | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It enables the setup of a complete CAD / CFD optimization chain. (CAESES provides the CAD creation, optimization tools and a simple approach to plug in meshing tools and CFD solver) It follows an object oriented design approach that focuses on clear dependency chains. Your whole geometry is represented in an object tree that gives you a structured representation of the CAD model. In contrast to standard CAD this tree can be sorted by you. In my point of view that is a big benefit, since everybody has a different way of creating his models. The first way to create CAD models in CEASES is comparable to standard CAD software. However the second more sophisticated way to create your model is to describe them in a scripting language. Its syntax is derived from C++ hence it is easy to read. It does not only provide the possibility to create CAD objects but also enables you created command chains for internal and external tools or the output of text files. Sky is the limit. As far as I can compare it, the user support is the best you can get. > > **Cons**: At the moment it can take some time to change the geometry of complicated models, since the code is not parallelized. To my knowledge this should change in the future. > > We use CAESES in your daily work for the design / optimization of our different propeller types and the interaction with the accordant ships. It takes some time to create the models (we are looking for high quality CAD / robust topology). In the end it saves a lot of time, leads to better products and reduces the response time for customer requests. ----- ### "Total Integration from CAD to Analysis with unlimited customization" — 4.0/5 > **Britton** | *8 October 2018* | Maritime | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The ability to closely couple advanced parametric or free form geometry creation and CAD models with any number of analysis tools is unique in my experience. The cost of the program is very competitive and the help desk support is second to none in answering questions. > > **Cons**: Occasionally minor speed issues with Windows interfaces related to the cross platform nature of the interface. > > Allowed us to bring our design process to a new level of automation, permitting the automated generation and analysis of 1000's of candidate yacht or powerboat designs against strict geometric or performance metrics. ----- ### "Remarkable Functionality and Equally Impressive Customer Support and Feedback" — 5.0/5 > **Christopher** | *20 September 2018* | Research | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: This software has quite a remarkable range of design capability with respect to creating both simple and complex geometries. The beauty in this software is the near seamless coupling with external CFD packages that enable fully integrated and automated DOE studies that are an excellent addition to a product's R\&D process. Most of all I enjoy the documentation and organizational scheme of CAESES with the scopes and sub-scopes, making it simple to keep specific groups of features together. > > **Cons**: Quite frankly, I can not write something in this section because any issue or frustration I have had with this software I was able to find very timely resolution for through the Help Desk or the Users Forum. > > The quality of the software itself along with the customer support and personable nature of the CAESES team has left quite the impression on me and my colleagues. As we use CAESES for biomedical engineering related research, it truly shows the range and capabilities of how and where CAESES can be used. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/177131/caeses?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ae/software/177131/caeses) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data