Custom BIM development for manufacturers

We design and build custom software around your products: add-ons for Archicad, add-ins for Revit and smart objects that place and calculate your whole system. Built by our own developers and scoped step by step, starting with a pre-project.

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When is custom BIM development the right step?

BIM objects make your products available in the model. But when your product is a system with rules, files alone do not carry it. Three signs you need software, not only objects.

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Your product is a system, not a single object

Your products connect, slope, repeat, and depend on each other. A static object cannot carry those rules, so designers simplify your system or leave it out.

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Designers ask for more than files

The firms that specify you want to place and calculate your whole system inside Archicad or Revit, not assemble it part by part from a download folder.

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Orders from the model never quite match

Quantities and article numbers taken off drawings by hand produce wrong orders. The data should come from the model, complete with the parts nobody models.

What custom BIM development includes

One team designs and builds the whole stack, from smart objects to a working add-on, scoped to your products and the platforms your designers use. Every project starts with a pre-project: a fixed-scope study that maps what is possible for your products and suggests the way forward. The software is developed in-house, by our own developers.

A menu, palette, and workflow of your own inside the BIM tools designers use every day. We build for current versions of Archicad on macOS and Windows, and for Revit on Windows, and we develop everything with our own team. 

How the process works

Three gates, and you decide at each one. A local advisor in Finland, Norway, or Sweden scopes the project with you, and our own developers build it.

Scope

A pre-project on your product range. We discover what is possible in the BIM tools and suggest a way forward for the whole project, so you can decide on solid ground.

Specify

A workshop with your product specialists, then a functional specification describing every element, parameter and behaviour. You review and approve it before development starts.

Build

Phased development with milestone deliveries you test and accept, through beta to go-live. Maintenance and version updates are available after delivery.

Typical outcomes

A working tool changes how your products move through a project, from the first design sketch to the order that reaches your factory.

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Designed in, not value-engineered out

When designing with your system is the path designers prefer, your products stay in the project, and the specification holds through to construction. You become the preferred choice on ease of design and ordering, not on price.

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Correct orders straight from the model

Schedules carry the right article numbers and quantities, including the parts nobody models. What is ordered matches what was designed.

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Your brand inside the design tool

Your logo, product pages and data travel with every placed element, in front of designers every working day.

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Reach on the platforms that matter

Delivery for both Archicad and Revit gives your products reach across the Nordic design market, where 60% of Nordic architectural firms use Archicad and we are the exclusive Archicad partner.

Who this is for

For manufacturers and suppliers of building products and systems who want architects and engineers to design with them, and to specify them.

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Manufacturers of building-product systems

Makers of products that install as systems, for example roof drainage, facade systems and modular or structural products. Designing with the range means rules, dependent parts and calculations that no static file can carry and that a custom tool handles for the designer.

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Suppliers with broad or configurable ranges

Manufacturers and suppliers whose catalogue is too large or too configurable for one-by-one files. Parametric logic covers every type and variant with reliable data, without anyone maintaining thousands of separate objects by hand.

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Product, marketing and estimating owners

The commercial owners of the BIM channel and the teams who price and tender your projects. They want your products specified more often outside the company and quoted faster and more accurately inside it and they can carry an investment case from a small pre-project to a delivered, maintained tool.

Put your products in the designer's toolbar

A local advisor maps the scope with you, and we come back with a pre-project proposal, so you can start small and decide from there.