70+
Production-ready
facade scripts
97%
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
97%
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 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 h
average hours spent on concept design per project — with the majority wasted on repetitive modelling, not actual design decisions.
Test entire facade studies in seconds.
Go from a blank Rhino surface on your massing to a detailed facade study in seconds. Pick a facade script framework from our library, tag your target surfaces and get a fully editable parametric facade.
→ SETUP TIME: ~ 45 SECONDS
Design changes without the headache.
Massing changed? Testing a different spacing? Opening shifted? Facet’s scripts recalculate and heal the entire facade automatically. One adjustment updates the full building envelope in seconds.
→ REWORK TIME: ~30 SECONDS
Production-ready output with 1 click
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.
→ BAKE TO RHINO: ~10 SECONDS
Step 1
Find your framework
Filter Facet’s Parametric Facade Library by facade type, complexity, and aesthetic. 70+ scripts spanning curtain wall, tessellation, fins, louvres, organic skins, and specialty panels.
Step 2
Tag your input surface(s)
Facet only needs a single input to create the entire facade. Apply the Object Name “facet-facade” to your target geometry. That’s it. Immediate visual feedback, zero configuration.
Step 3
Customize 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 vertical Surfaceor Polysurface– facet will do the rest. Our professionally developed scripts work on:
Spend your hours iterating on design intent, not endless remodelling or fighting broken data trees. Facet handles the complex computational math silently in the background.
Control Facade Direction
Always be in control of where the facade points. Use the Rhino-native ‘Dir’ command to display the surfacve or polysurface normals so you know excactly which way the facade will be. Flip the direction with a simple click.
→ DIRECTLY IN RHINO
Set custom floor heights
On real projects, floor heights aren’t uniform. Set custom dimensions for double-height ground lobbies, standard office levels, or special floors —all driven directly from the native Rhino Properties panel via UserText. No Grasshopper required.
→ DIRECTLY IN RHINO
Custom Spacing Grid Notation
Customize global facade spacing in Grasshopper or create custom spacing parameters on a surface-level basis.
A Grid-ALginment widget will display the current spacing to make it easy to align with structureal grid or target lengths. The widget also displays the side from which the spacing is measured.
The direction can be flipped in the same Usertext properties (FlipDirection).
→ DIRECTLY IN RHINO
Fine Tune & Customize
Floor to Floor Shift
Add horizontal elements
Add Fins at custom spacings
→ IN GRASSHOPPER
Control the Output Layers and Material
Floor to Floor Shift
Add horizontal elements
Add Fins at custom spacings
→ IN GRASSHOPPER
Not your average Spaghetti code
Facet scripts aren’t fragile, one-off prototypes—they are production-ready frameworks engineered for repeatable workflows. Built to be deployed across multiple projects, they deliver consistent geometry and integrate seamlessly into your studio’s pipeline.
Go as deep as you want.
Facet scales with your Grasshopper expertise.
Beginners
Design directly in Rhino. Use the property panel to shape the facade with Grasshopper running in the background. No GH knowledge required.
Intermediate
Open the Grasshopper canvas and fine-tune the clearly labeled blueparameters to customize the design even more.
Advanced
Use our highly organized logic as a foundation and add complex custom code on top.
Your firm doesn’t do off-the-shelf design. But rebuilding the exact same curtain wall logic from scratch for every competition pitch isn’t bespoke design—it’s repetitive labor. Facet gives you the ultimate starting line, so you can spend your hours designing where it actually counts.
01
Focus on the architecture, not the algorithm.
Facet handles the heavy computational logic—data trees, surface UVs, — so you can focus on the architectural expression. It is a foundation, not a straightjacket.
02
Fully editable scripts
Every script comes production-ready, but nothing is locked. Every parameter is fully exposed in Grasshopper. Dial in custom extrusion profiles, exact mullion depths, randomized panel distributions, and precise material tracking.
03
Your IP. Your Geometry.
There are no watermarks, no locked clusters, and no licensing restrictions on the output. Use the scripts as a foundation for your final delivery models, client pitches, or as a springboard for your own custom Grasshopper development.
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.
Built for your studio’s design workflow
Facet scripts aren’t fragile, one-off prototypes—they are production-ready frameworks engineered for repeatable workflows. Built to be deployed across multiple projects, they deliver consistent geometry and integrate seamlessly into your firm’s pipeline.
We maintain the scripts so they always just work
Rhino and Grasshopper are constantly updating. We continuously test, maintain, and update every script in our library so a software update never costs you a deadline.
New facade frameworks added continuously
We add new, cutting-edge facade scripts based on industry trends and user requests. Your subscription gives you immediate access, ensuring your design palette is always growing and never stale.
The primary difference is how the licenses are allocated and how your team can utilize them:
Solo (1 Dedicated Seat): This plan is node-locked to a single machine. It is designed for individual freelancers or solo consultants. The scripts will only compute on the specific computer registered to that account.
Studio (10 Concurrent Seats): This plan operates exactly like a Rhino Zoo network license pool. You can activate Facet on every single machine in your office and drop the files onto your shared network drive. The cloud server automatically manages access, allowing up to 10 architects in your firm to run the scripts concurrently at the exact same time.
If all 10 seats are in use, an 11th person has to wait until a colleague closes their session.
Any geometry you have baked into your projects is yours permanently as clean Rhino geometry. However, to access the cloud library, download new frameworks, or to run scripts you have already downloaded, an active subscription is required.
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 without the complex setup. The scripts are the solid base you can build on.
Any more questions? Reach out to: thomas@facet3d.com
Spend your time making design decisions, not manually rebuilding 3D models. Start testing complex facade options in seconds.
NO GRASSHOPPER EXPERIENCE REQUIRED · RHINO 8 · 70+ SCRIPTS
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 vertical Surfaceor Polysurface– facet will do the rest. Our professionally developed scripts work on:
Supports Multiple Inputs
Easily apply the facade onto several input surfaces. Facet takes care of all the data branch management in the background so you can focus on designing.
Intuitively control your design directly in Rhino.
Not your average Spaghetti code
Facet scripts aren’t fragile, one-off prototypes—they are production-ready frameworks engineered for repeatable workflows. Built to be deployed across multiple projects, they deliver consistent geometry and integrate seamlessly into your studio’s pipeline.
Go as deep as you want.
Facet scales with your expertise.
Beginners
Generate facades using the default 3-step setup. Adjust floor heights, spacing and the main design-specific parameters. No GH knowledge required.
Intermediate
Tweak the details without breaking the code. Key areas like fin profiles and panel rhythms are isolated in clearly marked “Design Zones.”
Advanced
Open the hood. Use our highly organized logic as a foundation to build your own custom parametric networks on top.
Go as deep as you want.
Facet scales with your expertise.
Beginners: Generate complex geometry instantly using the default 3-step setup. No GH knowledge required.
Intermediate: Tweak the details without breaking the code. Key areas like fin profiles and panel rhythms are isolated in clearly marked “Design Zones.”
Advanced: Open the hood. Use our highly organized logic as a foundation to build your own custom parametric networks on top.
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 h
average hours spent on concept design per project — with the majority wasted on repetitive modelling, not actual design decisions.
