The Element Set Manager lets your add-on mark a group of elements to be treated as a collection.

For example you have a building schedule database, and you want to assign elements to the tasks they are involved in. So you can create an element set for this task. Since an element can belong to more than one task, different element sets can contain the same element as well.

The elements in the set are referenced by their GUIDs. The Element Set Manager service automatically updates the GUID lists at merge or paste operations, when ID collision could happen.

You may also attach custom user data to an element set.

  Note that from Archicad 12 element sets are referenced with their GUIDs rather than indices, because element sets can be re-indexed during the lifetime of a project, and that could have made difficult to follow up.

 

Functions

The Element Set Manager functions begin with the ACAPI_ElementSet_ prefix.

ACAPI_ElementSet_Create
ACAPI_ElementSet_Delete
ACAPI_ElementSet_GetData
ACAPI_ElementSet_Identify

 

If you would like to store data into the project file that independent from the element database (that is it does not contain element unique ID references), you can use the ModulData Manager service.