Facet is a library of 70+ production-ready Grasshopper scripts engineered to transform any Rhino surface into a fully detailed, render-ready facade.
No Grasshopper knowledge required.
70+
Production-ready
facade scripts
95%
faster than manual
modelling
3
Steps from surface
to baked geometry
Facet is a library of 70+ production-ready Grasshopper scripts engineered to transform any Rhino surface into a fully detailed, render-ready facade.
No Grasshopper knowledge required.
70+
Production-ready
facade scripts
95%
faster than manual
modelling
3
Steps from surface
to baked geometry
Facet is a library of 70+ production-ready Grasshopper scripts that transform any Rhino surface into a fully detailed, render-ready facade.
No Grasshopper knowledge required.
70+
Production-ready
facade scripts
95%
faster than manual
modelling
3
Steps from surface
to baked geometry
The Problem
01
Modelling facade options is the slowest part of early design phases
Facades are the most complex part of architectural design. Manually populating hundreds of mullions, panels and fins takes hours for a single facade study. Multiply that across five competition options and you’ve spent a week on geometry alone.
02
Even small facade changes often cause time-intensive remodelling.
And early design phases are all about change. Floor height changed. Opening moved. Brief updated. With manual models, every change means hours of rework — for geometry that should update in seconds.
03
One Grasshopper designer is a bottleneck — and a single point of failure
Every facade request flows through the one person who knows Grasshopper. When they’re busy, the team waits. When they leave, the scripts go with them.
800
average hours spent on concept design per project — most of it on modelling geometry, not design decisions.
Test entire facade setups in seconds.
Name your surface, open a script, and the facade populates in real-time. Works on surfaces, polysurfaces, and trimmed geometry — the messy, real-world geometry of early-stage designs.
→ SETUP TIME: ~ 2 MINUTES
Iterate without the headache.
Massing changed? Opening shifted? Facet’s scripts recalculate and heal the entire facade automatically. One slider adjustment propagates across the full building envelope in seconds.
→ REWORK TIME: ~30 SECONDS
Production-ready output
Bake clean NURBS solids onto pre-named, material-assigned layers. Ready for your renderer, your elevation drawings, or your Rhino.Inside / IFC export pipeline — no manual cleanup.
→ STRAIGHT TO RENDER OR BIM
01
Find your framework
Filter the Design Hub by facade type, complexity, and aesthetic. 70+ scripts spanning curtain wall, tessellation, fins, louvres, organic skins, and specialty panels.
02
Tag your input surface(s)
Apply the Object Name “facet-facade” to your target geometry. Done. Every script runs on sensible defaults — immediate visual feedback, zero configuration.
03
Tweak and bake
Adjust floor heights, spacing, and panel rhythm via Rhino UserText. Fine-tune with clearly labelled Grasshopper sliders. Bake onto preset, structured layers with materials pre-assigned.
Turn any vertical surface into a facade
No complicated setups and definitions that break at the slightest change. The only input you need is a Surface– facet will do the rest. Our professionally developed scripts work on:
Supported Inputs:
Supports Multiple Inputs
Easily apply the facade onto several input surfaces. Facet takes care of all the data branch management in the background.
Intuitively control your design directly in Rhino.
Fully open and annotated Grasshopper definitions.
Go as deep as you want. Design zones — the places you’d actually want to change, like the profile of a fin or the rhythm of a panel — are clearly marked. Intermediate users customize without getting lost. Advanced users use the framework as a foundation and build on top of it.
Stop digging through a seven-year-old project folder for a broken script. Facet gives you a visual library with powerful filters — and new facade drops every month.
Always accessible:
Your subscription guarantees ongoing access to the private Web Portal—the central hub for finding, filtering, and managing your tools. It’s your secure, always-on workshop that you can access from anywhere.
Always maintained:
Rhino and Grasshopper are constantly updating. We continuously test, maintain, and update every script to ensure seamless compatibility with future versions, so a software update never costs you a deadline.
Always Growing:
We add new, cutting-edge facade scripts to the Engine based on industry trends and user requests. Your subscription gives you immediate access, ensuring your design palette is always growing and never stale.
Facet scripts require an active license to run.
New facade scripts are added monthly. Reach out if you would like to see specific designs and they’ll be added to the roadmap.
Yes. All scripts run out-of-the-box with minimal setup.
Our 5-minute QuickStart guide gives first-time Grasshopper users all they need to know to start creating facades.
Absolutely. The definitions are fully editable like a normal Grasshopper script.
All scripts require one grasshopper plugin (Elefront). Installation guide included on first login.
Yes. Script outputs clean geometry you can push through Evolve, Rhino.Inside, or IFC round-trip.
Rhino 8
Dive straight into creative logic—our scripts are the solid base you’ve always rewritten from scratch.
Any more questions? Reach out to: thomas@facet3d.com
Give your entire team parametric superpowers. Start testing facade options in seconds, not hours.
NO GRASSHOPPER EXPERIENCE REQUIRED · RHINO 8 · 70+ SCRIPTS
