An object's parent or children

Scripting
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@gootzans,

above script uses:

Rhino.DocObjects.RhinoObject.Description

which is not available in Rhino 5. Basically it returns the content of the _What command which is then searched for the Record id. To get this in Rhino 5 you could use the clipboard to store the text like described here.

The problem is, you’ll have to do this before asking for a selection and limit your selection to objects which do not have a record id, so the myfilter function could not be used. Instead you would have to select possible objects, run the _What command , store the content in the clipboard, search for the record id of every object and limit the selection to allowed objects using GetObjectEx() like below:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

def CustomGetObjWithoutHistory():
    
    rs.EnableRedraw(False)
    all_objs = rs.AllObjects(True, False, False, False)
    rc = rs.Command("_-What _Clipboard _Enter", False)
    result = rs.ClipboardText() if rc else None
    rs.ClipboardText("")
    rs.UnselectAllObjects()
    rs.EnableRedraw(True)
    
    if result:
        descriptions = result.split("\n\n")
        searchlist = zip(all_objs, descriptions)
        allowed_objs = [n[0] for n in searchlist if not "Record id:" in n[1]]
    else:
        allowed_objs = rs.NormalObjects(False, False)
    
    id = rs.GetObjectEx("Select", 0, False, True, allowed_objs)
    if not id: return
    
CustomGetObjWithoutHistory()

This works in V5, but has a 4 drawbacks, it is ugly, may be slow with many objects, clears the clipboard and it does not allow for a preselection.

c.