As you progress through using the workflows, you can save them at any time using the Save Workflow button ( ). When you save the workflow itself, you save the tasks, sub-tasks, and their settings, as your own custom workflow template for future use. You can also load any saved workflow using the Load Workflow button ( ). If you make a mistake in setting up your workflow, you can delete the task (using the Delete command in the context menu for the selected task), or even reset the entire workflow (using the Reset Workflow button ( )).
It should be noted that when you write the mesh file (File > Write > Mesh...), Fluent saves the current workflow along with any mesh information within the saved mesh file.
While saving the mesh file, Fluent also
locally copies relevant task editing data from the current workflow session's temporary folder
into a separate workflow-specific folder (called, for example,
my_mesh_file
_workflow_files
). This workflow-specific folder contains task editing
data, making it easier to use the workflow when reverting and editing tasks, in another
Fluent session. Use the corresponding Save task editing data with mesh
file preference to enable or disable this behaviour (see Setting Preferences for Workflows for more information).
Note:
Workflows are saved as workflow
template files (using the *.wft
file extension). The
*.wft
files include the version number of the current release
(for example, for the 2024 R2, release, the files are internally designated
with "version": "24.2"
.
Additionally, all default settings in the workflow files or journals are model-based, therefore, default settings will change when the workflow file(s) are applied to a new model. If, however, you have explicitly changed any setting values, then those changes will be preserved as user settings across various models.