Glazing Panels Edge Optimization

Grasshopper
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Hello, this is a structure column made of steel members with glass cladding on to the exterior of the column. the glass panels must be on offset 6 cm from the outer face of the steel which I have done.
my problem is that I can’t control the size of the glass panels that the edges meet each other, i want to be able to control the connection between panels. so later i would be able to have the accurate size of the panels for fabrication.

thank you for your time.

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Mosque Column for fabrication analysis.3dm (5.5 MB)
Mosque Column for fabrication analysis.gh (18.3 KB)

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Some old code adjusted:

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FIrst creating a mesh of your brep. Second, offsetting it. (No vertices offset) Now you can use the faces to create a brep or/and offset them inwards to get the right spacing between the glass panels etc. Hope this helps.

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Mosque Column for fabrication analysis_re.gh (28.1 KB)

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wow man this is brilliant thank you so much. i really appreciate it.

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Brillant solution !!!