You can open the Mechanical application without importing a geometry and specify any number of environmental conditions. To do so, select your desired analysis type in Workbench, select the Model cell, and open Mechanical. After you have defined all the desired aspects of your analysis, you can then save your simulation scenario. All without a geometry. This gives you the flexibility to simulate your scenario against different geometries.
The ability to define Worksheet-based Named Selections in this situation has the most strategic benefit. Specifically, once you specify criterion-based Named Selections, you can scope a wide range of objects, such as, Remote Points, Coordinate Systems, loading conditions, support conditions, results, etc. Once you save your project, you can use with various models.
Limitations
Note the following conditions when importing a system that includes criteria-based Named Selections. For an existing template, if you import a system that contains a:
Remote Point scoped to a criteria-based Named Selection, the Remote Point does may not update properly to include the location of the Named Selection. You can correct this condition by specifying an appropriate Coordinate System for the Remote Point instead of using the default Global Coordinate System setting.
A loading condition scoped to criteria-based Named Selection and whose direction is defined by a , the loading direction may not be updated after attaching the geometry. You can correct this condition by specifying the load by .