Parametric beam - Grasshopper noob question

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Hi,
I’m having a bit of an issue. I have hard coded a parametric drafter for beams in Rhino Common, I could make it into a component for Grasshopper, however I believe that I do not need any custom component and I would love to integrate a vanilla (or almost vanilla) Grasshopper solution to perform the following actions >
-Define a plane using a flat surface
On the following plane I want to
-Offset a curve that defines how big our beam is (so the offset from the deck, in this case is the upper brep)
-Draw an angled line
-Fillet the offsetted line in step 1, with the angled line in step 2
-Join the curves
From there Im pretty sure I will have figured out enough to be able to continue by myself
I am familiar with Grasshopper, however I’ve always hardcoded components to fit in my logic, I would love to be able to develop such a solution using Vanilla grasshopper components.

This is the goal that I want to reach :

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If anyone is experienced enough to be able to help me out with a simple explanation on how to reach the goal It would be great or provide me a simple base that I can work on by myself.
I do not want to be spoon-fed a complete solution, but I really need some help getting started sorting this out.

The parts Im having a hard time with are

  1. Generating a section
    2)Generating the curve I want in order to obtain the geometry shape
    3)Trimming the said curves so that the geometry is complete

Thank you very much in advance.

This is my starting point

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This is the wished result

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Thank in advance to the Rhino Community, hope someone can help me out.
It does not need to be production ready, I already have a component in C# to do that, I just want to learn about Vanilla grasshopper components.
This is the 3d model.3dm (439.7 KB)
Farouk

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Hello,

Here is a possible solution - I duplicated the beams to test the tree structure.

I went for the most difficult option where the user just selects all Breps at once and they are sorted along the way. This could be obviously simplified a LOT if the user was asked to select the flanges/webs separately.

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ParametricBeam.gh (24.3 KB)

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Thank you for providing this information. I appreciate your help and will check the GH you have shared. I wanted to note that my component typically requires breps as input, and the user must specify what they are. I am impressed by your ability to infer this information from the brep orientation alone - your work is truly impressive. Thank you again for your assistance.