Honest, opinionated guides and comparisons for warehouse racking design software. Written by the team building RackCity AI — with the bias declared up front and the questions other vendors dodge tackled directly.
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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 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 free8 tools, 11 criteria, one page. Pricing, browser support, rack-awareness, learning curve — every detail side by side.
Compare side-by-sideDifferent tools, different jobs. When SketchUp is the right pick, when RackCity AI 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 comparisonA 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 AI 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 worksWhich system fits how many SKUs you hold and how many pallets of each — access order (LIFO/FIFO), lane depth, density, selectivity and cost per position — with a to-scale elevation drawing of every system.
Compare the systemsVisual 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.
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