When working with an Ansys Minerva repository, you must understand the relationship between your local working version of the project and the copy stored in the repository. Even if a project has been stored to or opened from a repository, Workbench always operates directly on the local working copy of the project.

Workbench is aware of the relationship between the local project and the repository copy, and helps you manage your project and maintain consistency. You can save the local copy of a project to the repository at any point. If you open a local project, and the copy in the repository is more recent, you have the option of downloading and updating to the repository version.

When you save a Workbench project to an Ansys Minerva repository, Ansys Minerva always stores it as a virtual project archive (with the *.wbpz extension) so that you can act on a single object, rather than on a set of objects.