Video Tutorials
This page provides curated lists of helpful Bonsai video tutorials available online. Some are freely available, while others are part of paid services.
BIMvoice
Created by Petru Conduraru, this profile includes videos on understanding IFC, mostly in the environment of Bonsai.
| Name of Video | Date Published | Description |
|---|---|---|
| What is Open BIM? With Dion Moult #BIM #openBIM | 2020.11.24 | - |
| What is IFC? With Dion Moult #BIM #openBIM | 2020.11.27 | - |
| IFC Classes with Dion Moult #BIM #openBIM | 2020.12.04 | - |
| IFC Projects, Attributes, and Properties with Dion Moult | 2020.12.11 | Video describing IFC classes, objects, attributes and properties. |
| IFC Spacial Structures with Dion Moult | 2020.12.15 | - |
| Dion Moult on Geolocation with Bonsai | 2020.12.22 | - |
| Dion Moult on how are the materials stored in IFC | 2020.12.28 | - |
| BIMvoice live with Dion Moult on IFC aggregates | 2020.01.18 | - |
Ifc Architect
Bonsai - Beginner Project - Step by Step
| Name of Video | Date Published | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bonsai Tutorial - Beginner Project - Part 1 - Modelling | 2025.03.18 | This video covers a brief tutorial update on a Beginner project in Bonsai, Part 1 focussing on Modelling |
| Bonsai Tutorial - Beginner Project - Part 2 - 2D drafting | 2025.03.27 | This video covers a brief tutorial update on a Beginner project in Bonsai, Part 2 focusing on 2D drafting |
OpeningDesign
- Ryan Schultz is the founder of OpeningDesign, a radically transparent, open source architecture studio. He’s been practicing architecture for nearly 30 years, is a long-time contributor to the OSArch community, and has been actively using Bonsai, in practice, for over 3 years.
| Name of Video | Date Published | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Over 120 concise, beginner-friendly videos | 2025.07.19 | A video tutorial series for Blender and Bonsai, built around a real-world pocket neighborhood project. |
| 120+ concise, beginner-friendly videos (~4.5 min each) take you from modeling a simple cube to producing a clean construction drawing set. | ||
| The tutorials series also covers integrating, an always evolving, open source set of libraries and templates for materials, entourage, drawing standards and modeling–so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. | ||
| 20% of revenue supports Bonsai / IfcOpenShell dev. |
Sigma Dimensions
This user has created nine episodes providing training on both IFC and Bonsai (named Bonsai at time of release) and associated documents at this GitHub page. Bonsai and IfcOpenShell Python
| Name of Video | Date Published | Description |
|---|---|---|
| How to Install Blender, Bonsai and IfcOpenShell python (IFC 101 - E.01) | 2021.11.07 | This video walks you through the installation of Blender and Bonsai to get started in this python course series. We will be accessing .ifc files (IFC-SPF) through Blender’s User Interface and through a Programming console. |