Case Study: Noldesign achieves streamlined, accurate design of complex high-end homes with Graphisoft Archicad

Noldesign - Customer Case Study

Noldesign, a New Hampshire design-build firm that specializes in complex, high-end homes, needed software that could handle intricate, intersecting geometries and run on a Macintosh. The firm chose Graphisoft’s Archicad Virtual Building solution to meet those requirements and to give the team better control and visualization of their ambitious designs.

Graphisoft Archicad let Noldesign model the lakeside home’s swirling circles, full-size logs and tree elements, and complex rafters far faster and more accurately—using the Multiply tool reduced rafter modeling from “a couple of days” to about one hour—and enabled section cuts, automated documentation, and easier client/trade visualization. As a result, Noldesign reduced manual work and rework, enabled precise off-site fabrication (avoiding fit problems), sped design iterations, and delivered a weather‑tight, highly complex residence that validated Graphisoft’s solution for their most demanding projects.