@gsuberland "... so check your email, I've sent you an authorization on company letterhead to keep it up as long as you maintain an active support contract."
A few months later when I was visiting friends and family on the east coast, I stopped by their offices, only about a 2-hour drive from RPI where I was visiting some former classmates who had settled in the area.
Had pizza with the VP of ops I had spoken to before, their VP of engineering, my support engineer, spent several hours discussing everything from proposing improvements to the material library (having detailed Dk/Df data for specific cores and prepregs vs just an average for a given material) to looking over source code and discussing more optimization potential.
Later on I got an NDA for partial source code access, cleaned up my patch more, and upstreamed it. It just released in v19 a few weeks ago.