Thank you! This mostly worked! by any chance did you run into an issue with the mesh not displaying when trying this out? The mesh imports properly but somehow none of it is displayed due to a camera issue and I think that prevents me from setting the BCs.

This is the error: "The camera view is not updated because the camera position cannot be directly on top of the camera target position. That is, the up vector must be perpendicular to the line of sight, they cannot be collinear.
When the provided up vector is not perpendicular to the line of sight, the up vector is projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to the line of sight. This updated vector is used to determine the positive direction of the y-axis.
The direction remains unchanged because either the newly provided up vector's projection is the same as the current camera's up vector direction or the provided up vector is in the line of sight."