![]() While it does not really innovate here, in that it still feels like a modelling tool, Bonzai3D really captures the modelling process well, making it highly intuitive, with no surprises. The interface is very user friendly and self-explanatory. It also comes with a useful menu specific to architecture: walls, windows and staircases that can be dragged/dropped and easily resized. Bonzai3D is a simple, easy and quick conceptual modeller, which can be applied to any market that needs freeform NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) surfaces. While all those products are very capable, they are complex and feature rich due to years of development. Bonzai3DĪ Bonzai is a tiny tree and I guess here, Bonzai3D is a diminutive version of AutoDesSys’ FormZ modelling tool, which competes with the likes of Autodesk’s Maya and 3ds Max. On my travels around architectural firms, the most popular product I am seeing is Bonzai3D by AutoDesSys also creators of the 3D modelling and rendering tool, FormZ. This has opened the market to other developers, which while not offering products for free, are in a price band that most can afford. SketchUp can easily produce simple rectilinear forms but more complex designs require a level of skill that only comes with hundreds of hours of use and even then is not CAD accurate. While Google does update SketchUp, it has not really kept up with the demand for additional functionality that experienced architects and 3D users are now demanding. House modelled by Markus Bonn, AutoDesSys. As a result SketchUp is now endemic in the AEC industry and growth of all the vendors’ high-end 3D systems is now well and truly under way.įor those that do not need freeform surfaces, Bonzai3D is just as good at standard planar geometry with its built-in rendering engine providing easy on the eye results. All the major CAD vendors have to thank Google for this kick-start to the adoption of their 3D products. ![]() The resultant explosion in 3D usage pretty much changed the AEC industry for good, with many architects investing time learning how to model. ![]() More importantly, Google also made SketchUp a free download. Then Google, the Internet Behemoth, surprised the CAD market and bought the company to enable users to create 3D models for its Google Earth project. Funded by venture capitalists and some seed money from the fostered a growing relationship with its small but loyal base. Meanwhile, in a cabin in Colorado, the creators of SketchUp, software, had been building a small but die-hard fan base for its light, easy-to-use conceptual modelling tool. The good news is that it is just as easy to edit the geometry too. Those familiar with Google SketchUp will be very impressed with Bonzai3D’s ability to model precision freeform surfaces.
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