Workbench provides you with a straightforward workflow for creating and working through a system. First, you select a system from the Toolbox and add it to the Project Schematic (see Adding Systems to the Project Schematic). Then you work through the cells in the system, generally from top-to-bottom, until you have completed all the required steps for your analysis.

In most cases, data flows from top-to-bottom through the system, as well. For example, in a Mechanical system, the geometry must be defined before you can define the model; the Model cell uses the geometry defined in the Geometry cell as its input.

Because the workflows for different types of analyses differ to some degree, we have included two typical examples of working with analysis systems: one for a mechanical analysis and one for a fluid flow analysis.