Get the side surface of Beam

Hello folks, I am trying to get the side surface of structural framing (The last purpose is to create stirrup for beam in Revit).
The picture below is the case, but…
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For that beam it’s simple since I can get the surface area and counter-pose among each other and find the minimum surface area and get back those two surfaces.
In real practice project, we still have to deal a lot with more complex cases, e.g:
(Please see comments below)
Although I have found some packages but none of them can solve those cases. Any thought? Maybe some python script will the solve that?
Thanks you!!

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Try getting the location curve of the beam then find the faces with normals parallel to that curve.

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