Blender for Architecture: Bonsai New Feature! Walls from Polylines

In the latest version of Bonsai (former BlenderBIM) we have an incredible new feature to create walls from Polylines. You can now draw walls using a guide. It gives us a way to make multiple segments at once.
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[@DanielBreitschaft]

If possible, I would like to see a simple project done on the Bonsai from start to finish, to understand to understand how BIM works inside Blender. Thank you for the news that you always bring!

[@blender3darchitect]

Great idea. I'm planning to do something like this.

[@MrLelopes]

Great tip, not a new feature, but this should be the default one without any shortcuts, just straight-up ready when we click the walls or any element, to be honest. It's also important to mention that this tip came from @DionMoult in your last video comments session.

[@blender3darchitect]

Yes, this feature is under development for some time. I saw it in the OSArch forums about two weeks ago. It finally made to the official release.

[@DionMoult]

It will become the default drawing method for walls in the next release. There is still work to be done to make it handle editing existing walls, handling curved walls, showing wall previews, not just a line... and then can slowly roll it out to horizontal layered elements (e.g. slabs), and so on. The best way to help with development is to 1) report bugs / feature wishlists / usability / QoL stuff on the Github issue tracker 2) help participate on community forums to help other users so that we get a multiplier effect of community support. The best way to speed up development is to 1) join and write code or 2) chip in with some money so we can then hire coding. This wall tool would still not be around if we didn't have sponsorship, for example.

[@MrLelopes]

@@DionMoult No coding from this monkey here would be a good adition. lol, but I DO donate whenever I can. It isn`t great amounts since dollar convertions are really expensive for brazilians, but we are able to donate something like 10 bucks every other month. Two things that I really miss and could be game changers for us. An easy way to curve walls and an easy way to change walls thickness without changing/creating the whole family/class. Could you point me to the right direction to do those things?

[@MrLelopes]

Two things that I really miss and could be game changers for us. An easy way to curve walls and an easy way to change walls thickness without changing/creating the whole family/class. Could you point me to the right direction?

[@mipe7755]

Cool, I think we need way more modeling improvements. For what do we already have advanced management and drawing generation features while making a simple model is still a pain?

[@blender3darchitect]

Give them some time and it will improve. Things are moving in the right direction.

[@DionMoult]

The reason is because the minority of users are modeling and generating drawings. The majority are actually consuming existing models made from proprietary software, then enhancing, auditing, visualising, editing, existing models (also, that's my day job). User priorities drive development. So Blender is actually surprisingly used in a huge number of mega projects in the world in this sense, whilst simultaneously we struggle to do a house :)

[@mipe7755]

​@@DionMoult Meh, sad to always be in the minority, haha But I get the point. I hope modeling will get more love in the future too!

[@acadgatsu]

@@DionMoult This is really interesting. Are there examples of such projects in a forum somewhere? This new wall tool looks like a great addition.

[@NilsLeideck]

Does the specification of the wall length during the drawing action refer to the inside or the outside of the final wall?

[@guruware8612]

When devs don't know about HIDPI scaling... 3:53 look how fast it is to create the walls, some 40 quads. The unparalleled hyper-speed of Blender!

[@BollyAnimation]

Hi I use Blender 4.2 , Bonsai not installing for me

[@blender3darchitect]

Does it show any error message? What happens?

[@noogoogoo]

me too

[@syrob111]

did need internet to work bonzai ?

[@JustinDeane222]

no