The guid of selected object in section differs from guid of selected object in floorplan or in 3d

[Miha Nahtigal]

Why does the ACAPI_Selection_Get() returns different guid in section than in floorplan?

It there a way to get the "original" guid of selected object in section view?

[Viktor Kovacs · Accepted solution]

On sections there is a special element type called API_SectElemType. This is the section representation of an elem. You can get the original elem guid by accessing the parameters of the section element. Something like this:

API_Element element = {};
element.header.guid = sectionElementGuid;
ACAPI_Element_Get (&element);
APIGuid originalElemGuid = element.sectElem.parentGuid;
// now the originalElemGuid contains the real element guid

[Miha Nahtigal]

Great. Thank you.