Implement your own OpenAI API key and Create a Facade System Builder on the Grasshopper Canvas

Product Title

• Facade System Builder vCAD (Grasshopper C# STEP Pipeline) — Massing → Panels → Mullions → Perforations → Final Breps

SUMMARY

A cfg-driven Grasshopper C# pipeline that generates architectural massing and a complete facade system (panels, mullions, louvers, perforation fields) and then finalizes export-ready Breps with a robust batched boolean strategy.

Bring-your-own OpenAI API key support for optional AI-assisted design prompts + content—no key storage, fully user-controlled.

Full Description (Sales Page Copy)

What this is

This is a full architectural facade generator built as a Grasshopper C# STEP node series. You don’t just get “cool geometry”—you get a repeatable, controllable system that outputs clean, export-ready Breps you can use for real design studies, renders, fabrication prototyping, and portfolio-ready diagrams.

The Workflow (STEP_00–08)

• STEP_00 — Initialize project + cfg parsing (your design “control panel”)
• STEP_01–03 — Planning + candidate/intent scaffolding (optional content/brief targeting)
• STEP_04–07 — Massing + facade curves + system builder
• Panels, mullions, louvers, perforation fields—built to align to the outside of the massing
• STEP_08 (Finalizer) — The “production” step
• Batched boolean difference, failure-safe fallback logic, joining/merging outputs, and clean geometry lists for export

Why it’s different

Most parametric facade scripts collapse at the finish line:

• booleans crash,
• geometry goes null,
• lists explode,
• export becomes a mess.

STEP_08 solves that with:

• batched perforation booleans (stable and scalable)
• fallback one-by-one cutter strategy when a batch fails
• configurable “keep panel on fail” safety behavior
• export-ready outputs: FinalPanels + FinalFacade

BYO OpenAI Key (Optional)

This system supports an optional AI-assisted mode: you can plug in your own API key to generate design prompts / system variations / content scaffolds without shipping your key anywhere.

• You control the key
• Nothing is auto-posted
• Nothing is stored outside your Grasshopper file

Feature Bullets (High Conversion)

✅ CFG-driven control (copy/paste config strings into Panels)

✅ Facade system builder: panels + mullions + louvers + perforation fields

✅ Export-ready Breps (finalized geometry lists)

✅ Robust booleans: batched + failure-safe fallback

✅ Safe workflow: no auto-posting, no hidden calls, user-controlled inputs

✅ Designed for Rhino/Grasshopper power users who want a real pipeline, not a toy

What You Receive

• STEP_00–08 Grasshopper C# scripts (paste into C# Script components)
• Example cfg strings for each step
• Wiring diagram instructions (inputs/outputs for every node)
• Recommended defaults for stability and speed

Who it’s for

• Architects + computational designers
• Rhino/Grasshopper users who want repeatable facade generation
• Anyone building portfolio-ready massing + facade studies
• Studios who want a robust boolean-safe “finalizer” step

CTA / Close

If you’ve ever lost hours to broken booleans, misaligned panels, or spaghetti data trees—this is the pipeline that actually finishes the job.

Get it here: www.wickersonstudios.com

Social Ad (LinkedIn / IG Caption Style)

I built a full Grasshopper C# facade engine that goes from massing → panels → mullions → louvers → perforation fields… and actually outputs export-ready Breps.

The final step (STEP_08) uses a batched boolean strategy + failure-safe fallback so you don’t get stuck with null geometry when you scale up.

Optional: plug in your own OpenAI API key for AI-assisted variations—fully user-controlled (no storage, no auto-posting).

Available now at www.wickersonstudios.com

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Ultra-Short Tagline Options

• “A facade generator that actually exports.”
• “From massing to final Breps—no boolean drama.”
• “CFG-driven architecture. Production-ready output.”
• “STEP pipeline for real parametric facade work.”