Bonsai v0.8.1 has been released! Bonsai is an add-on for Blender that provides native IFC and OpenBIM authoring for architects, engineers, and construction professionals.
Highlights include:
- Twice as fast geometry processing with support for hybrid CGAL / OpenCASCADE geometry kernels
- Improved modeling tool for walls, slabs, doors and more, with snapping, axis alignment, angle snaps, and polyline drawing with instant previews
- Improved aggregate visualisation
- More accurate parametric roof generators, and more features for parametric stairs and materials for parametric doors
- Polyline, axis measurement, angle, and area measurement tools
- Direct IFC element adding, with the ability to immediately add non-mesh geometry elements
- New geometric editing mode for representation items, include new modeling tools for solid extrusions and boolean hierarchies
- Basic visualisation of structural loads cases and reaction forces
- Costing and resourcing improvements
