The Archicad training path for architects: from competent to specialist

A clear, ordered route through Archicad, from the basics to specialist work. Three levels, each one built to set up the next. Taught in your own language by Nordic BIM Group specialists with decades inside the tool. Find your level, then take the next course.

How the path works

An architect spends most of the working day inside the BIM tool. By our own estimate that is around 70%, and it varies widely from one practice to the next. Archicad is a deep tool, and most people use only a fraction of it. The more you put to work, the more that time pays back. This path gets you there in four moves.

Start

Get the foundation right. Learn to model competently and run a project from start to finish, so everything above this level stands on something solid.

Build

Add the daily production skills. Turn your model into clean permit sets, drawings, and schedules, faster and more consistently.

Specialise

Go deep where it counts. Take control of objects, data, and openBIM delivery, the work that sets a specialist apart.

Stay current

Keep pace. Refresh when your basics have aged, and pick up new ways of working as Archicad evolves each year.

Level 1

Basic: get the foundation right

Start here if you are new to Archicad, or self-taught with gaps you keep tripping over. Archicad Fundamentals takes you from an empty file to a complete, well-structured model, and teaches the project workflow the rest of the path builds on.

Took your basic course some years ago and feel rusty? The Archicad Refresh package brings you back up to the current way of working.

Courses in this level:

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Level 2

Advanced: turn the model into deliverables

Once you model with confidence, this level makes you productive. You learn to produce a clean, submission-ready building-permit set, build a complete and consistent drawing set efficiently, work faster with Archicad's everyday time-savers, and get reliable quantities and schedules straight from the model. Take them in any order, or pick the one that solves today's problem first.

Courses in this level:

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Level 3

Professional: specialist control

The specialist level. You take control of objects and libraries so they work for you instead of against you, and you learn to deliver and exchange model data cleanly through openBIM and IFC. These courses assume you already work competently in Archicad. They do not ask for a checklist of completed Advanced courses, only solid basics.

Courses in this level:

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What you'll achieve

Follow the path and the gains add up, for you and for the office.

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Skills that compound

Each level builds on the last, so nothing you learn goes to waste. You stop working around the tool and start working with intent. Every new skill rests on a base you can rely on, project after project.

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Confidence on real projects

Every course is taught by Nordic BIM Group specialists, around 20 Archicad experts among a team of 60 across the Nordics. You learn in your own language, on real Nordic project work, the way you actually work rather than in the abstract.

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Measurable office outcomes

Trained teams make fewer errors and get more from the licences you already pay for. We measured a 20 to 25% productivity gain across users after our Competence Accelerator. Companies with training programmes see around 218% higher income per employee (Intellum, 2026).

Find your level, then take the next step

Not sure where you sit on the path? Browse the catalogue for dates, or talk to an advisor about a structured programme for the whole office, from competence mapping to tailored training on your own projects.