Bonzai questions

arail1 · 16 Apr 2010, 17:54

Some questions -

Does it play well with SketchUp? Meaning, can you back and forth without a lot of cleanup?
Is there any control of line width for printing? I'm trying out the demo and I only see rather thick dark lines and can't find a way to reduce them for printing purposes.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

mitcorb · 17 Apr 2010, 03:33

Well, I can't believe there are no Bonzai users here.
What about Bonzai's Forum or Support-- don't they have either?

thomthom · 17 Apr 2010, 09:14

There are - just give it some time.
I got Bonzai myself - but I've not had any experience with the questions he's asking.

arail1 · 17 Apr 2010, 13:38

I'm sure these questions can be answered on the Bonzai forums and I'll try over there. But, like many of us, I'm working on several different programs now (SketchUp, modo, HyperShot, Octance, etc.) and managing questions and answers an all those different forums can be kind of a pain so posting on Extensions and Applications makes sense.

I'm patient. Someone will come along with useful information and insights. They always do on Sketchucation.

xrok1 · 17 Apr 2010, 17:30

i'll take a shot

there doesn't seem to be a way to control line width using Bonzai's print command but you could render first to get rid of lines then print that.
the SU import seems to work very well, as far as getting it back into SU your options are 3ds, dwg, and obj. 3ds works the best for me as long as you check the merge coplanar faces option when importing.

arail1 · 17 Apr 2010, 19:04

Thanks for the replies.
Yes, going back and forth from SU seems pretty easy.
The line width issue is irksome.
Nonetheless, Bonzai seems a pretty stable and useful tool.
Just starting to play with the nurbs functions now.

xrok1 · 17 Apr 2010, 19:25

have you seen my bonzai thread? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=27022
just waiting for the patch to come out before continuing it.

thomthom · 17 Apr 2010, 19:41

@xrok1 said:

i'll take a shot

there doesn't seem to be a way to control line width using Bonzai's print command but you could render first to get rid of lines then print that.

the SU import seems to work very well, as far as getting it back into SU your options are 3ds, dwg, and obj. 3ds works the best for me as long as you check the merge coplanar faces option when importing.

I did a quick test - Bonzai didn't seen to recognize SU's soft edges. Did I miss some setting?

As for DWG - does DWG export textures?

bonzai3d support · 5 May 2010, 13:50

Gentlemen,

Sorry, we have been away from your forum for awhile. Please post to our forum and we promise to be much more responsive!

http://www.formz.com/forum/discus41/messages/35952/35952.html?1273067113

We have just released the 2.1 version of bonzai3d, which among other things has added support for SKP v.7 files, so you can even more easily import files from SketchUp.

Currently, with line weights, what you see is what you get, but support for further line weight control is something that we will be adding in the future.

DWG export does not support textures (yet) but many other formats (DAE, 3ds, OBJ, FACT, LWO) do support textures for both import and export.

dale · 5 May 2010, 15:24

So many great 3D modelers...so little time