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Warehouse indoor mapping: racks, aisles, bins and docks in 3D

Spatial Map is warehouse indoor mapping software that runs in the browser. Import the warehouse floor plan, draw racks with their bins, aisles, docks and zones, and you have a scaled 3D map of the building that WMS stock, RFID reads and sensor data can live on — no CAD skills, no install.

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Crestline Fulfillment Center dock doors in 3D: door D03 unloading with a long dwell time and inbound lane IN 03 full, next to the rack area
Crestline Fulfillment Center
Crestline Fulfillment Center (demo): dock doors, inbound lanes and racks on one 3D map, with a long dock dwell and a full lane flagged.
Pallet locations mapped in the Crestline demo
1,484
Floors in the same demo, stacked in 3D
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Floor-plan import, at the right scale
PDF · DWG
Free trial, no credit card
7 days

What a warehouse map needs that a drawing does not have

A CAD layout shows lines. A warehouse map has to know things: that this rectangle is rack A-12 with 4 bays and 5 levels, that this lane is inbound staging 03, that this opening is dock door 7. Those names are the keys your WMS, RFID middleware and sensors already use, and they are what lets data land in the right place.

  • Racks and bins — drawn with the Rack tool as a grid of cells; each cell is a bin your stock rows can match.
  • Aisles, lanes and walls — polylines that are flat lane markings or 3D walls, with forklift routes and staging lanes.
  • Docks and doors — doors on their walls, dock doors as shapes your yard and RFID data can colour.
  • Zones — pick faces, quarantine, returns, cold rooms, charging — as areas with names and heights.
  • Mezzanines and floors — each floor at its own elevation, connected by stairs and lifts.

Building the map

Upload the floor plan as a PDF or AutoCAD DWG, set its drawing scale and pin it to the site on the map (CAD and PDF import). Then trace: the Rack tool lays out a rack and its cells in two clicks, the Aisle tool draws lanes and walls, and areas cover zones. Our team can also map it for you.

Nothing is extracted from the drawing automatically today — AI detection of racks and aisles is coming soon — so the map is exactly what you drew and named.

Putting the warehouse’s data on it

Once the map exists, any table with a location column can be drawn on it. A bin-inventory CSV tints every rack cell by status; RFID reads place cartons at the reader that saw them; temperature probes colour cold rooms; forklift tags show where the trucks are. See bin inventory CSV to a live rack map for the simplest start, and the warehouse digital twin for the full solution.

Crestline Fulfillment Center in 3D with every rack location coloured full, OK, low, empty or blocked, and a blocked location highlighted in red
Crestline Fulfillment Center
The same warehouse with every rack location coloured from a stock table: full, OK, low, empty or blocked (Crestline demo).

Who uses the warehouse map

The same map serves several teams; share links and saved filters give each one its own view:

  • Operations — docks, lanes and congestion on one screen in the shift office.
  • Inventory control — counts and stock gaps by rack, not by spreadsheet row.
  • Safety and facilities — forklift routes, walkways, fire doors and charging areas.
  • 3PL clients — a read-only share link to their stock, with expiry and view caps.
Polar Pharma cold store in 3D: cold rooms, freezers and pallet locations coloured by status, with an insulin pallet and a dock-door reading called out
Polar Pharma — Cold Storage & QC Facility
A cold store mapped the same way: cold rooms, freezers and pallet locations, with a pallet read at a dock door (Polar Pharma demo).

Warehouse map vs CAD layout vs WMS location list

CAD layoutWMS location listWarehouse indoor map
Knows rack and bin namesNo (lines and text)YesYes, on the shapes
Knows where they areYesNoYes, to scale, in 3D
Shows live stock and devicesNoAs rowsOn the map
Editable by operationsNeeds CADNeeds WMS adminIn the browser
How Spatial Map does it

A warehouse map in four steps

  1. 01

    Import the floor plans

    Upload a PDF or AutoCAD DWG per floor, set the drawing scale and pin it to the building’s location. How import works.

  2. 02

    Trace the building

    Draw rooms, walls, doors, racks, stairs, lifts and labels with the editor’s tools — or let our team do it.

  3. 03

    Connect your data

    Bind tables — stock, devices, bookings, sensors — to the shapes with data links; style rules colour them.

  4. 04

    Share and navigate

    Open it in the read-only viewer or a share link, with floors, filters and the Navigate button.

Warehouse maps in the demo workspace

Fulfillment center

Racks by stock status, RFID cartons, docks, forklifts and shift reports.

Solution: Inventory Crestline

Cross-dock and yard

50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and pallets by lane.

Solution: Logistics Eastport

Cold store and QC

Cold rooms, freezers and RFID pallets with temperature on the same map.

Solution: Cold chain Polar

Plant stores

Inbound docks, stores and line-side stock in an assembly plant.

Solution: Supply chain Summit

See it on real demo facilities

Fictional names, real floor plans, live sensors, RFID, BLE tags and gateways — open any of them in the browser.

All 13 demo facilities
Crestline Fulfillment Center, a fulfillment center demo, in the Spatial Map 3D viewer with live device markers
Fulfillment center

Crestline Fulfillment Center

2 floors · 19 reports
Eastport Cross-Dock Freight Hub, a cross-dock & trailer yard demo, in the Spatial Map 3D viewer with live device markers
Cross-dock & trailer yard

Eastport Cross-Dock Freight Hub

1 floor · 20 reports
Polar Pharma — Cold Storage & QC Facility, a pharmaceutical cold store & qc lab demo, in the Spatial Map 3D viewer with live device markers
Pharmaceutical cold store & QC lab

Polar Pharma — Cold Storage & QC Facility

2 floors · 20 reports
Summit Assembly Plant, a assembly plant demo, in the Spatial Map 3D viewer with live device markers
Assembly plant

Summit Assembly Plant

2 floors · 20 reports

Solution films

One-minute films made from the demo facilities, one per solution.

Inventory film: “See every pallet. Live.” beside the two floors of Crestline Fulfillment Center in 3DFilm, 1:00

Inventory

Crestline Fulfillment Center, a demo warehouse, live in 3D: 1,484 pallet locations coloured by status, 627 RFID cartons followed door to door, dock dwell and forklift battery flagged in place, and the shift reports.

Logistics film: “Move freight on time” beside Eastport Cross-Dock and its trailer yard in 3DFilm, 1:01

Logistics

Eastport Cross-Dock, a demo freight hub, live in 3D: 50 dock doors, 44 yard slots and 1,180 RFID pallets, the gate and weighbridge, a pallet staged in the wrong lane, short loads before cut-off and the dock, gate and yard reports.

Cold Chain film: “Keep every batch in band” beside the floors of Polar Pharma in 3DFilm, 1:02

Cold chain

Polar Pharma, a demo cold store and QC facility, live in 3D: 8 temperature zones, 35 probes and door sensors, a cold room leaving its 2–8 °C band, 647 RFID pallets read at every door and the excursion reports.

Warehouse indoor mapping — frequently asked questions

Yes. Spatial Map reads DWG files (R2004 to R2018) itself and places them as a floor-plan picture at the right scale; PDFs work the same way. DXF is not read directly. Nothing is extracted automatically — walls, rooms and doors are drawn on top. See CAD and PDF import.

They should. A data link matches table rows to shapes by name or code, so naming racks and bins exactly as your WMS does means stock lands in the right cell with no lookup table.

Racks are drawn in 3D with a height and racking settings, and each cell can carry its own data. For per-level stock, include the level in the location code your data uses.

You can — the editor runs in the browser and needs no CAD skills — or our team maps the building for you from your PDF or DWG plans as a custom service. Automatic detection (AI Map) is coming soon; today every map is traced on top of the floor plan.

A 7-day free trial covers up to 5 facilities with no credit card. Pro is $60 a month or $600 a year for up to 4 facilities. Done-for-you mapping and integrations are quoted as custom services.

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