Lindal Group adopts ArchiFrame for BIM-first element production

Company: Lindal Modul
Industry: Element production
Location: Akland, Risør, Norway
Year founded: 1987

Background

Lindal Modul is a division of the Lindal Group, specializing in industrialization and innovation. Its recent projects have primarily focused on supplying Lindal Hus with elements and modules for residential developments, including houses and apartment buildings.

Lindal aims to leverage CNC, BIM, and modern technology to support both the Lindal Group and the broader market. The company is committed to producing modular homes with innovative solutions, integrating as many components as possible at the factory level. To achieve this, Lindal seeks to maximize the potential of BIM technology.

Why ArchiFrame?

Jan Frode Nilsen, Lindal Modul Construction Manager, explains why Archicad and ArchiFrame were a natural choice for Lindal’s ecosystem:

“ArchiFrame and Archicad play a crucial role in all our development projects. To have programs that work fluidly, but also allow us to constantly improve our models – this is why we use them”.

For Jan Frode, the relationship with ArchiFrame goes way back:

“I have been working with ArchiFrame for many years now, including with a previous employer. When I started at Lindal Modul last year, I insisted we use ArchiFrame in our upcoming projects. It was never even a question for me if ArchiFrame was the best software for my work!”.

It is the powerful combination of Archicad with ArchiFrame that really works for Lindal Modul: “The way we can use ArchiFrame for our timber, CNC, and element production in combination with Archicad’s infrastructure for architectural design, detail drawings, BIM objects, and external workflow with other actors solves a lot of our problems”.

Jan Frode uses ArchiFrame for element production drawings that are then exported in CNC to a Hundegger SpeedCut saw.

Jan Frode feels that it is the sense of co-operation and partnership that makes ArchiFrame such a competitive choice in the BIM software market: “The positive partnership between ArchiFrame users and ArchiFrame developers also feeds into my choice. Whenever I find a bug, have a problem, come up with an idea for future improvements, or just need that one final tweak to be happy, they are always ready to help.

I also hugely appreciate that I can discuss my ideas, and I really get the feeling that we are working together as a team towards the same goal: making ArchiFrame a little bit better for us all. That is pretty unique in this world”.

Benefits of using ArchiFrame

Jan Frode enjoys the fact that ArchiFrame allows him to have a lot of agency over the BIM workflow: “I like the feeling that I am in control of the software and can make the software obey my demands, instead of a rigid and fixed software that limits my creativity.

This has been essential to our success and though we’re still in the development stage here at Lindal Modul, we feel confident that we have the right software for our upcoming success”.

Software also plays a positive role when it comes to communication and collaboration: “We use the software’s visualization tools in an advanced way so that the customer, builder, and stakeholders have the opportunity to go deep into the details of the building and what it will eventually look like, even before we have had cut a single plank”.

Most useful features of ArchiFrame

Fluid & customizable workflow
Open source code for editing
Not being tied to macro or standard settings