Finding objects based on GUID

[lambda]

Is there any function similar to Document::getObjectsByLabel() but working with GUIDs?

Or even more general: Are the any functions yet, which do anything useful with GUIDs?

[openBrain]

Just use '{document}.{GUID}' to get a pointer. No need to call a function.

[lambda]

Just use '{document}.{GUID}' to get a pointer. No need to call a function.

I don't know how to translate this into valid syntax.

TIA, Harald

[openBrain]

Eg. object with name 'Sketch' in active document is accessed with :

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App.ActiveDocument.Sketch

[lambda]

Yes, I know how to do this with objects.

But a GlobalId is a property of an object, not an object itself.

I have

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>>> FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Wall.GlobalId
'2Uv8iBq25ChAfktTCU0To2'

So suppose I know '2Uv8iBq25ChAfktTCU0To2', but not to which object it belongs.
Is there any way to arrive at 'Wall' or a reference to FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Wall without iterating over FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Objects?

[vocx]

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But a GlobalId is a property of an object, not an object itself.
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Is there any way to arrive at 'Wall' or a reference to FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Wall without iterating over FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Objects?

I don't know if there are functions that handle the GUID, but the important question is what do you want to do with it?

The "Name" of an object is a global unique identifier; instead of using a complex string like "2Uv8iBq25ChAfktTCU0To2", you can just use "Wall". This name is unique in the document, so you can always get this object with this simple string "Wall".

Object name

[lambda]

What I want to do right now is process data from other BIM applications, that don't know about the object names in FreeCAD document, but know the GUID, because they are working on the same IFC file.

But I think pretty much everybody using GlobalIds will want to find objects based on them. Even if it is just updating objects from a newer version of your IFC file, you will want to find them efficiently.

[yorik]

All Arch/BIM objects have a GlobalID property which is an IFC global ID. What @vocx says is also true, the object name is unique in FreeCAD and serves as an ID.

You indeed need to iterate over objects to get one with the ID you want, but you could do that with an easy function like:

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def by_guid(guid):
    for obj in FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Objects:
        if hasattr(obj,"GlobalID") and (obj.GlobalID == guid):
            return obj
    return None

[lambda]

Sure, I can do that, but it will be very slow on big files.

However I guess this answers my question: There is no such function yet.

[bernd]

Sure, I can do that, but it will be very slow on big files.

I do not think so. Once the file is loaded such python method will be blind fast, even with 10000 objects. Slow (really slow) will be any interaction with the mouse and the tree view. For example if you would like to select 1000 of the 10000 objects in the tree view with the mouse (possible with shift and start and end object).