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Self-storage fit-out planning · Early preview

DXF survey in.
Unit layout out.

StorePlan reads your floor plan, runs corridors to the exits and fills the space with storage units and doors. You get the schedule, the take-off and a DXF in the time it takes to open the drawing.

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Example building, laid out by StorePlan with its default rules 1,319 m²storage area 113units 10,445 ft²net lettable 73.6%efficiency 33.2 mlongest escape route

Four steps from survey to schedule

The layout redraws as you change a rule, so you can try a deeper row or a different unit mix and see what it does to the numbers straight away.

  1. 1

    Open your DXF

    Drop in the survey. Put a closed outline on a layer called STORAGE AREA and StorePlan picks up the floor area and any voids, such as a lift or stair core, by itself.

  2. 2

    Mark the exits

    Click each fire exit and each door into another space. Corridors are run to all of them. Escape routes are measured to the fire exits only.

  3. 3

    Set the rules

    Corridor width, target unit depth, the unit mix you want and the door for each size. Rows are sized to fill the building wall to wall.

  4. 4

    Export

    Take the layout back into CAD inside your original drawing, on its own layers, with the unit schedule and take-off as a spreadsheet.

What comes out

Everything is counted from the same layout, so the drawing, the schedule and the quantities always agree.

Unit schedule

Every unit numbered, with its size class, actual area, frontage, depth and door.

  • Unit mix against your target, size by size
  • Net lettable area and efficiency
  • Sizes in ft², dimensions in millimetres

Materials take-off

The quantities a partitioning quote starts from, updated with every change.

  • Dividing partitions, by length and area
  • Corridor fronts and wall linings
  • Doors by type and width, corner protectors

Escape check

The route from the far corner of each unit to its nearest fire exit, measured along the corridors.

  • Longest route shown on the plan in red
  • Units over your limit are flagged
  • An indicative check, not a fire strategy

A drawing you can issue, not a sketch

The DXF is drawn to size in your survey's own coordinates and units. Walls are 30 mm outlines. Each door has a 30 mm frame at both jambs, and swing doors stand part open with their arc.

Choose the layout by itself, or the layout added to your original drawing with every existing layer left as it was.

1000 opening 30 wall 30 × 30 frame door 15° open

Your drawings stay on your computer

StorePlan runs in your browser. The DXF is read on your own machine and is not uploaded anywhere, so a client's survey never leaves your hands.

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