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.
Turn a building flyer into a priced BOM and a client-ready Pricing Summary in under 10 minutes — no CAD, no spreadsheets, no waiting on engineering.
Generate a quote fasterFrom first call to signed PO — how to use software at every stage of the rack sales process to quote faster and close more than the competition.
See the sales playbookThe building permit and the high-piled storage permit, the heights that trigger each, what seven jurisdictions publish, and which pieces of the package are yours, the engineer's and the fire department's.
Read the permit guideOne 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 rackingModel storage-expansion scenarios, compare current vs. proposed buildings, and build a capital request — all before you commit to a lease or contractor.
Model your expansionCounterbalance 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 aislesDrop 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 walkthroughEuro 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 metresCalculate pallet positions for any building in minutes, compare three sites side-by-side, and show tenants a real layout — before they even ask.
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