How can we assign thickness to surface bodies automatically using scripting?

Say we have imported an external model and have hundreds of surface bodies not fully defined (missing thickness). Thus we just want to assign a shell thickness to these surface bodies to try things out (so to make sure model runs). Can this be done automatically via scripting?

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Erik Kostson

Below is one way of doing this - it assigns to all unsuppressed surface bodies (that do not have a thickness), a 10 mm thickness - one could also read in the thickness from file and assign it accordingly - feel free to modify and to use with care and at your own risk):

import units
myunit='mm'
myth=10
for part in ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Geometry.Children: 
        if part.Suppressed is False: 
            partType = part.GetType() 
            if partType == Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.Part: 
                for body in part.Children: 
                    if body.Suppressed is False:
                        if body.GeometryType==GeometryType.Surface:
                            th=body.Thickness
                            if th == Quantity(0, body.CentroidX.Unit):
                                cth = units.ConvertUnit(myth, myunit,body.CentroidX.Unit, 'Length')
                                body.Thickness=Quantity(cth, body.CentroidX.Unit)

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Erik Kostson

import units
myunit='mm'
myth=10
for part in ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model.Geometry.Children: 
        if part.Suppressed is False: 
            partType = part.GetType() 
            if partType == Ansys.ACT.Automation.Mechanical.Part: 
                for body in part.Children: 
                    if body.Suppressed is False:
                        if body.GeometryType==GeometryType.Surface:
                            th=body.Thickness
                            if th == Quantity(0, body.CentroidX.Unit):
                                cth = units.ConvertUnit(myth, myunit,body.CentroidX.Unit, 'Length')
                                body.Thickness=Quantity(cth, body.CentroidX.Unit)