3. Attach minimal versions of all the relevant files
Have you tried anything with Grasshopper?
Instead of drawing rectangular surfaces in Rhino, have you considered using GH for that? Do you realize that anything GH does with referenced rectangles (drawn in Rhino) will leave the original rectangles in place? Do you want to scale the height or set a specific offset distance?
These are questions that haven’t been fully answered in your presentation so far, though they’re not the philosophical questions I was referring to.