About
Pacific Generative Design is an independent software company. We build structural optimization tools, starting where the problem is hardest: aircraft structures.
Why we exist
Commercial structural optimization is decades old, and the solvers behind it earned their reputations. The experience around those solvers is another matter. Setup is still card-based and takes years to master. Licensing is hard to predict without a spreadsheet. The preprocessor, solver, and postprocessor come from different eras and were never designed together. Meanwhile the vendors keep consolidating into larger enterprise suites, where a structural optimizer becomes one line item among hundreds.
We think the numerics deserve a better vehicle. PGD is independent, and optimization is our whole product: a modern solver, analytic sensitivities, a scriptable workflow that treats your model as code, and software that runs wherever your data is allowed to live.
Principles
Analytic sensitivities get checked against finite differences, and validation runs before every solve. When we publish benchmarks, they will come with reference solutions and error figures. If we can’t show something converging, we don’t claim it.
Most of a design cycle isn’t solve time. It goes to model setup, silent input mistakes, and moving results between tools, so that’s where we put the engineering: models that live in version control, validation that catches mistakes while you type, results in the viewers you already use.
We’re building one tool, for optimizing load-bearing structure. We started with the hardest case we know, airframes, and we expand into a new domain only once we can validate it as thoroughly as the last.
Team
PGD's founding team combines aerospace structures experience with modern software and numerical-methods engineering. Bios are coming to this page. In the meantime, evaluate us the way you'd evaluate the software: ask us hard questions.
Bring a structure and your skepticism, and put the software in front of your real constraints.