Chapter 18: Working With ANSYS Workbench Projects

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## Chapter 18: Working With ANSYS Workbench Projects

A Workbench project archive file is a compressed file that you can save your current project to when you are working in ANSYS Workbench. An archive file contains data pertaining to a Workbench project and has a `Workbench Project File` (.wbpj) and its associated _files folder. When you save your current project to an EKM repository from Workbench, the project is automatically converted to a `Workbench Project Archive File` type with extension .wbpz when it is added. This also happens if you upload an existing Workbench project to the EKM repository. This is done so that you can act on a Workbench project by operating on a single object in EKM, rather than on a set of objects. If a Workbench project is stored in a repository as separate objects—that is a .wbpj file and its associated _files folder—then you can use the Save As Workbench Archive action to create an archive file from within EKM. See Saving Workbench Project Archives in EKM.

Note that the size of the .wbpz in the List view is the sum of the sizes of all of the project files, not the size of the archived project.

When a Workbench archive file is added to a repository, EKM automatically generates a Workbench project report for it as a child object that contains key information about the project. When you click on the archive file, the report is displayed in the file list window and you can download it in several different file formats.

In addition to these actions, you can also update a Workbench project from within EKM and conduct parametric Design Point (DP) studies on the archive file. When these actions are initiated, a batch task is created by EKM that launches Workbench in the background. You can monitor the task by going to the Jobs/Job Monitor page. Being able to initiate DP runs from within EKM saves you the time of having to launch Workbench, perform the action, and then send your changes back to EKM for repository storage once the results are obtained.

In this section:

- Displaying Workbench Project Reports
- Saving Workbench Project Archives in EKM
- Parameters in Workbench Projects
- Updating Workbench Projects in EKM
- Performing Design Point Studies in EKM

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