Defining sections for line bodies in Ansys Workbench. 1

[Ramandall]

I have line bodies imported to workbench from CAD. The line body in mechanical model tree is showing a question mark for being undefined beam ("missing cross section"). Is there a way to define the section properties in Mechanical using JS or in workbench using Python?
I don't have access to design modeler and could not transfer the section defined in my cad and could not use command snippet because of the question mark on the line body.

Thank you,

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[rickfischer51]

Per the manual:

Line Bodies

A line body consists entirely of edges and does not have a surface area or volume. Although multiple CAD sources can provide line bodies to ANSYS Workbench, only DesignModeler and ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler provide the additional cross section data needed to use line bodies in an analysis. For those CAD sources that cannot provide the cross section data, you need to import them into DesignModeler or ANSYS SpaceClaim Direct Modeler, define the cross sections, and then send the geometry to the Mechanical application in ANSYS Workbench.

Rick Fischer
Principal Engineer
Argonne National Laboratory

 

[inline6]

in design modeler.

Concept>cross section.....define the right section

in the parts tree outline select the defined section