Guides

RackCity AI Guides

How-to guides for designing a pallet rack layout, generating a material quote and BOM, and planning warehouse storage capacity in RackCity AI — written for rack manufacturers, material handling dealers and distributors, and rack installers, and useful to anyone planning a warehouse floor. No CAD experience required.

Getting Started

1 guide

For Rack Dealers, Distributors & Installers

3 guides

Planning & Capacity

6 guides
Planning · 9 min
How Much Pallet Racking Do I Need?

One pallet position per 8–16 sq ft — where that rule of thumb comes from, the three decisions that move your building within it, and how to turn it into an exact count and a parts list before a contractor quotes you.

Estimate your racking
Planning · 10 min
Warehouse Capacity Planning

Model storage-expansion scenarios, compare current vs. proposed buildings, and build a capital request — all before you commit to a lease or contractor.

Model your expansion
Planning · 8 min
Pallet Rack Aisle Width by Forklift Type

Counterbalance 11–14 ft, reach truck 8–11, VNA 5–7 — where each number comes from, the fire-code floor under it, and what every foot of aisle costs you in pallet positions across a real building.

Size your aisles
How-to · 7 min
Building Flyer to Pallet Rack Layout in One Step

Drop the leasing brochure on the start screen, tick the plan page, pick the truck — and, more usefully, check what the reader read and fix the four things flyers get wrong before you say the number.

Read the flyer walkthrough
Guide · 9 min
Pallet Racking Layout in Metric

Euro and industrial pallets, the beams that hold three of them (2,700 / 3,300 / 3,900 mm), frames, the 100 mm rule, aisles per truck in metres, and a worked 60 × 40 m warehouse — in a tool that works natively in metric.

Lay out in metres
For Brokers · 7 min
Warehouse Racking Capacity for Industrial Brokers

Calculate pallet positions for any building in minutes, compare three sites side-by-side, and show tenants a real layout — before they even ask.

Compare sites faster
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RackCity AI is browser-based pallet racking design software with a free plan to start. Upload a building flyer or describe your warehouse and get a layout, pallet count, and quote in minutes.

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