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Showcasing Bonsai Outputs

1. O by Owura_qu on 29 Mar 2025, edited 6 Apr 2025 # +22 votes

   This is a WIP project and even though not yet complete I want to share with the community where my baby steps in Bonsai are leading me to!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   Everything is Bonsai. I don't know how to do rendering in Blender so I had to export the .ifc model to .fbx and import it in Lumion for the rendering. I have received material resources freely shared by Theoryshaw and studying to understand how materials, textures and lighting work in Blender so I can finally do end-to-end projects in Blender.

   Comments for improvement are welcomed!

2. S by steverugi on 29 Mar 2025 # +4 votes

   bravo @Owura_qu, quite a sterling output!

   Now the hardest part: convincing our colleagues here in Ghana to adopt it :D

3. O by Owura_qu on 29 Mar 2025, edited 29 Mar 2025 # +3 votes

   @steverugi said:

   bravo @Owura_qu, quite a sterling output!

   Thank you and I can't deny that you have been a great source of inspiration and encouragement too. If only I could do with architecture what you do with costing/ scheduling maybe I could reach the level of Theoryshaw in Bonsai:).

   Now the hardest part: convincing our colleagues here in Ghana to adopt it :D

   Yes! Convincing them to leave their comfort zone has been difficult (and the documentation of Bonsai is still crude to them).

   I know we are doing our best and at least you have one disciple and I also have one:). Who knows what the critical mass of discipleship can do; we need to showcase more of our works as Bonsai improves. @Prince_01 is improving and will also showcase his works too.

4. Z by zoomer on 29 Mar 2025 # +1 votes

   I am again completely impressed and speechless .....

5. D by duarteframos on 1 Apr 2025 # +1 votes

   Fantastic work, I always get humbled when I see what people are capable of and how powerful Bonsai already is.

   Thanks for sharing, these make my day

6. M by Moult on 1 Apr 2025 # +2 votes

   Incredible work! I'll do my best to reshare your work on other channels (after we do the release, as currently 4.4 support isn't ready) :)

7. S by sahrul on 4 Apr 2025 #

   @Owura_qu This is an outstanding job. Did you often encounter errors while working on this project?

8. O by Owura_qu on 6 Apr 2025, edited 6 Apr 2025 # +20 votes

   @Owura_qu This is an outstanding job. Did you often encounter errors while working on this project?

   Thanks, and (with much gratitude to the community) the errors I encountered for this project were minimal compared to my early days when I had very little understanding of Bonsai. I can attribute the following to my improved understanding of Bonsai;

   1. Reading the posts of others on this forum and learning from the experiences.

   2. Posting my errors for help where I MUST and reading the IFC/ Bonsai documentation where I CAN.

   3. To reduce frustrations ifcGit is a must-use for "undoing" seemingly irreversible errors.

   4. It is motivating to have a learning partner to journey along with (outside the forum). For me having @steverugi :) is like a busy antenna always signaling the bright side of Bonsai irrespective of errors.

   5. This is a great forum with great contributors (I cannot mention all their names) but if you're an architect and you see a notification, especially from @theoryshaw and @Ace you must pay particular attention.

   I am very hopeful about the future of open source enough to gamble the transition from over a decade of mastery of Revit to Bonsai, and I know the initial productivity loss is gradually being rewarded. Initially, errors may scare you to go back to your comfort zone but the quick response from the community and developers to resolve these errors is incredible!

   So for me, errors don't scare me anymore.

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