Run VA Command from Grasshopper

VisualARQ
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Hi, I had an idea that I will prepare for me a “Create Similar” button. I thought that I can do it using Grasshopper Player.
First step is to reference VA Object and determine its type. Then based on that information run desired VA command like vaSpace, vaWall, etc.
Unfortunatelly executing vaCommands which are meant to create new object is not working as expected. You can see that Macros work just fine. The same goes for vanilla Rhino commands I can execute Rhino commands from Grasshopper without any problem. What is preventing me from doing it?

In short: My goal is to invoke fully working VA command/macro by some Grasshopper/Grasshopper Player event.

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Hello @moby-dk,

The Rhino command component is a LunchBox component, I will check if there is something we can do about it. For now, you can use the VisualARQ API: https://www.visualarq.com/support/tip/is-there-an-api-or-sdk-for-visualarq/.

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On the site you linked its written it is not recommended to use this API in Grasshopper.
Unfortunatelly, I’m very bad at coding and as you might see using simple rs.command to run rhino command is very easy.