Everything we publish, in one place. How-to guides for laying out a warehouse and quoting the racking, honest comparisons of the software you could use instead, example layouts and drawings you can measure against your own building, and the notes for every RackCity release. Written by the team building the tool, for rack dealers and distributors, warehouse operators, and industrial brokers — with our bias declared and the numbers shown.
From blank canvas to a floor plan PDF, elevation drawing, and client-ready quote — enter your building, add zones, configure racks, and export, all in under 10 minutes.
Read the walkthroughOne 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 metresTurn 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 playbookCalculate 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 faster8 tools, 11 criteria, one page. Pricing, browser support, rack-awareness, learning curve — every detail side by side.
Compare side-by-sideAn honest ranking of the 7 tools warehouse designers actually use — AutoCAD, SketchUp, RackPlanner, Visio, and more. Pricing, strengths, and when each one fits.
Read the rankingsSix tools you can lay out a warehouse in at $0 — ours included — with exactly where each free tier stops, and the one that counts pallet positions.
See what's actually freeA complete framework for evaluating warehouse design software. Requirements, criteria, red flags, and a decision matrix to match tools to workflow.
Read the guide"Warehouse planning software" means three different tools — layout planning, WMS location mapping, simulation. Which one your job needs, what each costs, and what a browser is enough for.
Read the guide$80–$160 installed, $5–$12 a square foot — what's inside the number, a fully priced quote for a 25,000 sq ft warehouse, and the five levers that move your own figure.
Price a buildingHow Forky drafts a rack layout from a sentence or a flyer, why the pallet count is the engine's and not the AI's, what it gets wrong, what it refuses, and what it costs.
See how the AI worksDifferent tools, different jobs. When SketchUp is the right pick, when RackCity is, and why most serious teams use both.
Read the comparisonModern browser tool vs legacy Windows desktop. Where RackPlanner still wins, and where the gap has closed.
Read the comparisonVisual gallery of common warehouse pallet rack layouts — 3PL, cold storage, ecommerce, food distribution. With diagrams, position counts, and design notes.
See the layoutsOne 25,000 sqft building, every decision explained — rack type, aisles, cross tunnels, column burying, and the math from empty shell to ~1,800 pallet positions.
Walk through the layoutOne 60,000 sq ft fulfillment building, every decision explained — the pick line, the reserve block, speed bays, two aisle widths — and why ~3,400 positions at 17.6 sq ft each is the right answer for orders per hour.
Walk through the layoutThe rack seen from the aisle — eight bay elevations from a 16 ft two-level frame to a 36 ft high bay and two metric bays, each with its spec, and how to read the drawing the engineer stamps.
See the elevations