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With the isogeometric concept and the underlying spline technologies in hand, let us now step back and briefly retrace the original motivation behind IGA, i.e. the opportunity to reunify computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE). Pushing forward the reasoning also enables us to envisage the power of the approach for shape optimization, as discussed at the end of this section.