Indoor mapping software for German plants, warehouses and offices

Most German plants and warehouses have an up-to-date layout drawing somewhere — usually a DWG kept by facility management or plant engineering, plus PDF plan sets for each building. Spatial Map imports both. A DWG (AutoCAD R2004 to R2018) is placed at true size because it is drawn in real-world units; you confirm millimetres, centimetres or metres and choose the layers to show. A PDF sheet is matched to its paper size and you pick the drawing scale, such as 1:100, or enter a known width in metres. DXF is not read directly — save it as DWG or plot it to PDF. The details are in the CAD and PDF import docs.

The imported plan is a picture at the right scale. On top of it you trace what matters operationally: halls and rooms, racks with bin locations, walls, doors, stairs, lifts and aisles. For the general workflow see indoor mapping software.

German production sites are often grown, multi-storey buildings: mezzanines above the line, offices over the warehouse, a second production floor reached by goods lifts. Spatial Map models every floor in 3D with the stairs, lifts and escalators that connect them, so a hall on level 2 is no longer a separate PDF. Racks get real locations, which means stock by bin can be coloured from your ERP or WMS data, and production areas can be coloured by line status or order from your MES — via a REST endpoint Spatial Map polls, a file upload or the table write API.

A digital twin is only useful if the people who need it can open it. Read-only share links let you send one facility — with the layers and floors you choose, an expiry date and a view cap — to a maintenance contractor, a logistics service provider, a customer auditor or the landlord. They open it in the browser without an account, and you can revoke the link at any time. The Navigate button builds walking routes around walls and through doors on a floor, which helps a visiting technician find the right hall.

Inside your company, four roles (Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer) separate the people who edit the layout from those who only view it, and every workspace is isolated from the others.

The app is fully available in German, so plant engineers, facility managers and shift leads can work in their own language, while colleagues at a foreign subsidiary use English, French, Spanish or Chinese on the same twin. If you would rather not trace the layout yourself, our team digitises floor plans as a fixed-price custom service — usually proposed within three business days — and works with you remotely in German or English.