Figure 1: Link Thermal to Independent Structural keeping pre-Environment Branches—Alternative Ways Introduction ANSYS Workbench Mechanical can link a thermal analysis to a structural analysis, sharing Engineering Data, Geometry and Model directly. When directly linked, bodies in the structural model cannot be suppressed independently of the thermal analysis, and meshing and contacts cannot be set differently. A structural analysis can be linked at the Geometry level, but the user will have to re-do all of the Model details, including desired Coordinate Systems, Connections (including Contacts), and meshing controls. This keeps the structural analysis independent of the thermal analysis. Temperatures can be mapped. This article explores methods that let the user keep the Model controls while maintaining an independent structural analysis, so that bodies can be suppressed, contacts and meshing can be tweaked only if desired, and temperatures are still mapped from the thermal analysis. Details of Creating an Independent Structural System In the Workbench project page, the usual approach to linking a thermal analysis to a downstream structural analysis is to drag-and-drop the structural analysis onto the Solution cell of the thermal analysis: Figure 2: Drag-and-Drop a Structural System onto Solution of a Thermal System   The following familiar result has … Continue reading Link Thermal Analysis To Independent Structural Analysis