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[SOLVED] How to select an element by C++ code

Anonymous
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My goal is to select an element by C++ code.

I have a modal dialog and I have elements GUIDs in current document, I want to select an element on dialog's button click.

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks in advance!
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Ralph Wessel
Mentor
ggiloyan wrote:
My goal is to select an element by C++ code.
Is there a way to do that ?
Yes, take a look at ACAPI_Element_Select.
Ralph Wessel BArch
Software Engineer Speckle Systems
Anonymous
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Thank you for the help! It works fine!
Tibor Lorantfy
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
To make it clear, ACAPI_Element_Select is working with neig points of elements.
If you have element GUIDs it's not a problem, because you can convert it to neig points the following way:
- with the GUID get the element's header using ACAPI_Element_GetHeader
- use ElemHead_To_Neig function (can be found in APICommon.h in example AddOns) to convert the elemhead to neig