Bonsai (BlenderBIM)

Native IFC BIM authoring inside Blender

★ Stars2.9k2,867 on GitHub

Last commityesterday18 Oct 2026

LicenceGPL-3.0Per the project

From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. The repository's licence file is detected as LGPL-3.0; GPL-3.0 is the licence of the application itself.

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Bonsai, formerly the BlenderBIM add-on, turns Blender into a native IFC BIM tool for architectural modelling, drawings, schedules, costing and clash detection. It is part of the IfcOpenShell project.

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Status	Open source
Licence	GPL-3.0
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Category	Architecture & BIM
Website	bonsaibim.org
Source	GitHub

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