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Learn Pallet Rack Layout Design

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.

How-to guides

9 guides All guides →
Guide · 9 min
How to Use RackCity: Design a Pallet Rack Layout in 5 Steps

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 walkthrough
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 Dealers · 7 min
Pallet Rack Quote Software for Dealers

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 faster
For Dealers · 8 min
How Rack Dealers Win More Jobs

From 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 playbook
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

Comparisons & buyer's guides

9 articles All comparisons →
Table · 6 min
Warehouse Design Software Comparison Table

8 tools, 11 criteria, one page. Pricing, browser support, rack-awareness, learning curve — every detail side by side.

Compare side-by-side
Listicle · 9 min
Best Warehouse Design Software in 2026

An 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 rankings
Listicle · 8 min
Free Warehouse Layout Software: 6 Honest Options

Six 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 free
Guide · 12 min
The Warehouse Design Software Buyer's Guide

A complete framework for evaluating warehouse design software. Requirements, criteria, red flags, and a decision matrix to match tools to workflow.

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Guide · 5 min
Warehouse Planning & Mapping Software

"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
Buyer's Guide · 9 min
Pallet Racking Cost per Pallet Position

$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 building
Explainer · 8 min
AI Warehouse Layout Generator

How 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 works
Versus · 7 min
SketchUp vs RackCity

Different tools, different jobs. When SketchUp is the right pick, when RackCity is, and why most serious teams use both.

Read the comparison
Versus · 7 min
RackCity vs RackPlanner

Modern browser tool vs legacy Windows desktop. Where RackPlanner still wins, and where the gap has closed.

Read the comparison

Example layouts & drawings

4 examples All examples →

Release notes

Latest release All releases →
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RackCity is browser-based pallet racking design software. Upload a building flyer or describe your warehouse and get a layout, pallet count, and quote in minutes — free to start.

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