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Blender 4.3 Beta is out! Time to test and evaluate the updates. 

Still regarding shaders in Blende 4.3 alpha, a minor update to the Principled BSDF. We have a Diffuse control with a roughness slider. 

Blender 4.3 will get a new Metallic BSDF shader. 

Bonsai 0.8 is out! Time to update. 

Just found this comparison table between CAD/Design tools:
 https://x.com/ShawnHymel/status/1828506348968886516 

Do you agree? 

Bonsai (BlenderBIM) received an early version of a polyline tool to create walls. This will speedup modeling!

 https://community.osarch.org/discussion/2447/wall-polyline-tool 

46 New Metal Materials (AmbientCG). You can easily import them to Blender as USDZ files.

Latest update with new materials from AmbientCG (Creative Commons Zero):

 https://ambientcg.com/list?id=MetalSubstance009,Metal062C,Metal062B,Metal062A,Metal061C,Metal061B,Metal061A,Metal060C,Metal060B,Metal060A,Metal059C,Metal059B,Metal059A,Metal058C,Metal058B,Metal058A,Metal057C,Metal057B,Metal057A,Metal056C,Metal056B,Metal056A,Metal055C,Metal055B,Metal055A,Metal054C,Metal054B,Metal054A,Metal053C,Metal053B,Metal053A,Metal052C,Metal052B,Metal052A,Metal051C,Metal051B,Metal051A,Metal050C,Metal050B,Metal050A,Metal049C,Metal049B,Metal049A,Metal048C,Metal048B,Metal048A 

Meet the new name for BlenderBIM → BonsaiBIM:
 https://bonsaibim.org/ 

I received a question the other day about using Blender with multiple monitors. If you are using it with several displays, you can 'detach' a copy of your current 3D Viewport by going to View → Area → Duplicate Area into New Window.
 

If you have to make changes to the units of an entire project in Blender, use the Unit Scale. It is a quick way to change your units for all objects. It applies a multiplier to the scene. No need to use a transformation. And it doesn't result in scale factors.