Architectural curtain wall facade - detailing

Grasshopper
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I have used some basic components to create a facade type consisting of a curtain wall with some additional elements applied on top of glass.
The glass is supported by grid of mullions that I have modelled as just thin planes for now:

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I have then included a portion of the script that draws the profile of the an actual mullion:

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Right now i put in the bottom left corner of the facade:

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The real mullions should be extrusions of this profile along the lines that constitute the mullion grid. I wonder if someone here could think of a way to replace this grid of this planes with sweeps of this profile along the grid? I would like to make mullions more real.

PS: Pretty sure there should be some plug-ins or components in the Paneling Tools that would make this script much simpler. Will look into it next. I’m still looking at fundamentals…

Facade 4-2 w mullion.gh (72.0 KB)

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What is the intended output?

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Japhy,
Sorry for confusion.
The intent is to extrude that profile along the vertical and horizontal elements of the grid
to which the blue arrows are pointing. Arrows are pointing to a couple of verticals and horizontals, but i need to extrude along each one.
Let me know if this is clear, or I can also make a sketch…

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Are you doing renderings? fabrication or parts? the final output makes a big difference

Extrude Linear is the component your are looking for.

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Great,
Let me try.
Do you think I will need to use separate components for horizontal and vertical lines?

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The component takes a profile(s), orientation of the profile, Axis and Orientation of the Plane (optional)

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Wondering why I con not make it work.
I got the plane of the profile (1) and orientation planes of the axis (2)

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Facade 4-2 w mullion 2.gh (77.6 KB)

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If you can isolate a small example without plugins i can take a look.

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Please, see attached.
Facade 4-2 w mullion 3.gh (45.9 KB)

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keeping the profile at 0,0 makes this easier

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Re_Facade 4-2 w mullion 3.gh (49.5 KB)

If you are looking to take this to a fabrication level (knockouts etc) this tutorial is really good.

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Thank you very much.
It appears that when the profile is not at 0,0 the output appears in a random spot in space?

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…so I must always have the profile in the true origin?

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Correct, everything in Rhino is related to the 0,0,0 Origin.