Hi all, I am new to Visual ARQ and I have a question related to the object GUID. I used VisualARQ to add parameters to an object. When I need to modify the parameters, I have to bake the object again. So, Rhino will create new object with new GUID. This causes trouble for the estimation software t…

Hi @archdang you can use the Update Property component instead, which preserves the object ID. [UpdateProperty]

Dear Francesc, Thank you so much for your help, the problem is solved. I wonder when could we access the Visual ARQ api in GHpython. Cheers Tran

@archdang you are welcome! There is already an API available for VisualARQ (although no documentation yet). In this thread you can find some details: VisualARQ API - #2 by enric And here some examples: Is there an API or SDK for VisualARQ? - VisualARQ We are adding more functions for the VA API o…

Thanks Francesc, It is great to hear that the API is there I think it will be very helpful when the document is in place. Also, I found a couple things related to the IFC export process that we need help please . In Rhino, it is great that we can keep update attributes while keep GUID of object. …

Hi @archdang , The information about ifcProject and ifcSite can be assigned to the document through the Document User Text dialog, or through the command line (SetDocumentUserText command). These are the user text keys available: IfcProject_Name IfcProject_Description IfcProject_LongName IfcProjec…

Dear Francesc, Thank you for your response. In our case, we need to preserve as much as possible all the GUIDs of those entities for revision purposes. Could you please help us with that. Thank you in advance Best regards Tran

All right, we will try to keep GUID’s on IfcSite, IfcProject, etc… in future versions.

Dear Francesc, It should be great, we appreciate your supports. We are looking forward to trying the new version. A little hint about the release time frame should be great for us if you do not mind. Thank you in advance, Best regards Tran Dang

Hi @archdang , it’s still soon to do a fair estimation when version 3 will be released. The earliest might be in 2022. Hopefully, we will release a WIP version in a few weeks that will be available for VisualARQ users.

Is it possible to get the guid of an object through the table property? I’m exporting data via a csv not the ifc export. I didn’t see any parameter that was a guid.

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fsalla (Francesc Salla) July 22, 2026, 1:57pm 14

Hi @Benjamin_Paolo_Fortu, we have implemented this feature in VisualARQ 3.11 RC2: VisualARQ 3 - Version 3.11 RC2 released

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