Pallet Racking
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Powered by AI

Have a floor plan, rack drawing, or just an idea? Use RackCity AI to draft an editable layout, calculate pallet positions, and price your quote in minutes.

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How it works

From a floor plan to a priced rack layout

01 / Upload

Upload a floor plan, flyer or sketch.

A floor plan, a building flyer, a rack quote — or a photo of the sketch on your clipboard. PDF, photo or screenshot: Forky AI reads the building, the dock doors and any racking drawn on it.

The Generate from your drawing dialog in RackCity AI, reading a photo of a hand-drawn rack plan on a clipboard
02 / Draft

Forky AI lays out the building and racking to scale.

The building, its columns, dock doors, office and staging land on the plan to scale, in feet or metres, with the racking the drawing shows. Click any bay for its elevation, or orbit it in 3D — selective, double-deep, drive-in, push-back, cantilever and wide-span alike.

The RackCity AI plan of a 200 by 120 ft building with eight back-to-back rack rows, a staging area and four dock doors, beside the 3D view of one bay
03 / Edit

Change the racking by asking Forky AI.

Tell Forky AI what to change — switch to push-back, add a beam level, widen the aisles — and the plan redraws in seconds, pallet count and all.

A Forky AI chat in RackCity AI: the request to switch the racking to push-back, 3 deep, with 3 beam levels on 28 ft uprights, under the redrawn plan
04 / Price

Price every frame, beam and anchor.

The material list writes itself from the layout — frames, beams, row spacers, wire decks, anchors. Add your prices, manufacturer and part numbers, installation and freight; the grand total and the cost per pallet position follow.

The Material List in RackCity AI: five line items with quantities, part numbers and prices, project fees, and a grand total with the cost per pallet position
05 / Deliver

Export a drawing set your customer can sign.

Export the drawing set — plan, elevations, schedules and building features, with a title block your customer can sign — plus the pricing summary and the bill of materials as CSV or XLSX.

The exported RackCity AI drawing set: the plan view sheet with its title block, fanned over the elevation and schedule sheets

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Features

Built for Simplicity, Speed, and Precision

Describe Your Warehouse with AI

Describe your warehouse in plain language — size, clear height, rack type, doors — or drop the drawing, and AI drafts the entire layout in seconds.

Six Rack Systems, One Canvas

Selective (single, back-to-back, double-deep), drive-in, push-back, cantilever, carton flow and wide-span shelving — each with its own layout engine and elevation.

See Every Bay in 3D

A 2D elevation and a 3D bay view for every rack type, drawn from the same numbers as the plan — welded or bolted, decked or bare, loads on or off.

Drawing Set, BOM and Budget

Export a layout PDF with plan, elevations and schedules, a bill of materials as CSV or Excel, and a priced summary ready for the quote.

100% Browser-Based

Open a tab, start designing. No downloads, no license keys, no AutoCAD required — and your projects follow you to any machine.

Your Customer’s Language, Units and Currency

Design and quote in the locale your customer works in, from Monterrey to Munich to Riyadh: 34 languages (right to left too), metric or imperial, and prices in 39 currencies. See every locale →

Save Hours

From a building flyer to a drawn, counted layout in minutes, not days.

Win More Deals

Be first with a credible layout your customer can see — with every bay in 3D.

Price with Confidence

A bill of materials and a budget built from the layout itself.

Built for Rack Pros

Six rack systems, vendor-real dimensions, and the drawings dealers and installers expect.
What it is

Pallet rack design software for the people who fill warehouses

RackCity AI is browser-based pallet rack design software for rack manufacturers, material handling dealers and distributors, and rack installers. Warehouse operators use it to plan their own floor. It turns any warehouse layout drawing — a floor plan, a rack drawing, a building flyer — into an editable pallet rack layout with real pallet counts, aisle widths and clearances. Drop the PDF or the photo, or describe the space, and the AI drafts the racking the drawing shows, or what you ask for; you refine it bay by bay, then export a drawing set, a bill of materials and a budget. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install and no CAD seat license to buy. It is a pallet position calculator and a full racking design software in one tab.

It draws the systems warehouses actually use: selective racking (single, back-to-back and double-deep), drive-in, push-back, carton flow, hand-pick levels, wide-span shelving and cantilever. Mezzanines are drawn as footprints, with shelving under the deck or on it; pallet flow and mobile racking are not supported yet, and we say so rather than drawing something we cannot stand behind.

New here? Take the product tour, explore the six racking systems in 3D, browse 8 real warehouse pallet rack layout examples, see why browser-based design is the default in 2026, or read the warehouse design software buyer’s guide.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is RackCity AI?
RackCity AI is pallet rack design software for rack manufacturers, material handling dealers and distributors, and rack installers. Plan rack layouts, calculate pallet positions, and check aisle widths and clearances before any steel is ordered — all in the browser, no install required.
What can I start from?
Any warehouse layout drawing as a PDF, a photo or a screenshot (JPG, PNG or WebP) — an architectural floor plan, an existing rack drawing, or a broker's building flyer — or a plain-language description of the space. You can also start from a blank building or from a sample layout.
Does RackCity AI use AI?
Yes. Forky AI, the built-in assistant, reads your drawing or your description and drafts the building and its racking — the racking the drawing shows, or what you ask for — then keeps editing it as you talk to it. It is a drafting aid, not an engineer: every layout is yours to check, and the geometry, counts and clearances are all editable by hand.
What types of racking does it support?
Six rack systems, each with its own layout engine, elevation, 3D bay view, material list and drawing sheet: selective pallet rack (single rows, back-to-backs and double-deep, with hand-pick shelf levels and carton-flow beds on the lower beams), drive-in, push-back (carts or rollers, 2–5 deep), cantilever for long loads, and wide-span shelving. Every zone controls its frame depth, beam length, aisle width and column burying; speed bays, cross tunnels and dead-bay handling are built in. Offices, pick-and-pack stations, dock staging strips, cold rooms, cages and mezzanine footprints with their stairs are drawn as floor areas the racking works around. Pallet flow, mobile racking and pallet rack up on a mezzanine deck are next. See each type of pallet racking in the 3D racking explainer.
Can I see a bay in 3D?
Yes. Inside a project, every rack bay has a 3D view beside its 2D elevation, drawn from the same numbers as the plan: orbit it, toggle the loads and check it against the material list. The 3D bay view is on the Solo and Warehouse Pro plans.
How much does RackCity AI cost?
There is a Free plan that stays free — the design canvas, AI-drafted layouts and pallet counts, no credit card — and two monthly plans that add exports and more AI requests: Solo at $29/month and Warehouse Pro at $99/month, with an Enterprise plan for rack sales teams. Every plan is compared feature by feature on the pricing page.
Does RackCity AI work in metric, in other languages and in other currencies?
Yes. The app is in 34 languages, with Hebrew, Arabic and Persian laid out right to left, and you design in metric or imperial. Material lists and quotes show your own prices in any of 39 currencies, with that currency's symbol and decimals. See every language, unit and currency on the international page.
Do I need to install anything?
No. RackCity AI runs entirely in the browser on any modern desktop — no CAD license, no plugin, no IT ticket. Designs are saved to your account so you can pick a project back up on another machine.
Who is it built for?
Rack manufacturers, material handling dealers and distributors, and rack installers quoting a customer's building. Warehouse and operations teams use it to plan their own space. If you have ever counted pallet positions in a spreadsheet, it was built for you.
Can I order or install from the outputs?
Not directly. RackCity AI is a planning and estimation tool: its drawings, quantities and budgets are for scoping and quoting, and every configuration needs project-specific engineering review against the seismic, load and permit requirements of your site — in line with ANSI/RMI MH16.1 — before anything is ordered or installed. See our Terms of Service for details.