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dlooman
Ansys Employee

That might work.  Commands like the ones below could be inserted into the connections

et,1001,188 

esel,s,type,,_bid

emod,all,type,1001

allsel

Or there might be a way to create an APDL component of the elements for each beam diameter and reference the component name in the user defined result.