A 72x24in workbench, a 36x24in garage storage cabinet, a 48x96in ceiling-hung overhead storage rack, a two-post or four-post vehicle lift at 132x180in and a 72x192in car drawn in plan - five garage and workshop CAD blocks for the one room in a house whose storage is bolted to the wall or hung off the joists rather than standing on the floor. The bench and the cabinet sit on the wall line and eat into the garage's clear depth, which is what decides whether a car still parks in front of them; the overhead rack does not, because its footprint is above head height and only the car roof and a raised garage door pass under it. The car block is what answers that question on the drawing rather than in your head. Free DXF downloads.
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The garage workbench, and the piece that decides whether a car still parks in front of it. At 24in deep against the end wall it takes two feet out of the garage's clear depth, which on a 20ft garage is the difference between a full-size pickup fitting and not.
72 x 24in as drawn, adjustable 36-96in wide and 18-36in deep. 24in is the bench depth that takes a vise at the front edge and still leaves usable surface behind it.
Back-left corner on the wall line is the datum and the open work edge marks the front. Draw the standing space in front of it as a clearance rather than assuming the garage aisle covers it; the aisle a car needs and the space a person needs at a bench are measured from different things.
Drawn with the garage storage cabinet along the same wall and the overhead rack above, which together are the garage set.
| Plan footprint (W x H) | 72in x 24in |
|---|---|
| Units | inches |
| DXF version | R2018 |
| Insertion datum | back-left corner on wall line |
| Parameter | Default | Range / options |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 72in | 36in–96in |
| Depth | 24in | 18in–36in |
The floor-standing garage cabinet, used in a run along the end or side wall. Like the workbench it eats the garage's clear depth, and the two are usually specified together as one wall's worth of storage, so their depths should match rather than step.
36 x 24in as drawn, adjustable 24-48in wide and 18-30in deep. At 24in it matches the workbench depth, which is what lets a bench and a cabinet run share one wall line.
Back-left corner on the wall line is the datum, with the cabinet doors and their two pulls marking the front. The doors are drawn closed; a 36in cabinet with a pair of hinged doors needs roughly 18in of swing clear of the wall, which the block does not show.
Arrayed along the garage wall with WORKBENCH-72, under the overhead storage rack.
| Plan footprint (W x H) | 36in x 24in |
|---|---|
| Units | inches |
| DXF version | R2018 |
| Insertion datum | back-left corner on wall line |
| Parameter | Default | Range / options |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 36in | 24in–48in |
| Depth | 24in | 18in–30in |
The ceiling-hung storage rack, and the only piece in the catalog whose footprint is above head height rather than on the floor. It takes no clear depth from the garage at all: a car parks under it, and what has to clear it is the vehicle roof and the garage door in its raised position, not the aisle.
48 x 96in as drawn, adjustable 24-96in wide and 48-144in long. The long dimension runs across the joists it hangs from, so the length is set by the framing rather than by what is being stored.
The datum is the back-left corner of the rack, hung at ceiling - not on a wall line, because the rack does not touch a wall. Draw it on the reflected ceiling plan or on a dedicated overhead layer rather than with the floor-standing casework, since on the floor plan it reads as an obstruction that is not there.
Drawn above the bench-and-cabinet run, and checked against the raised garage door's travel, which is the one thing in the garage that occupies the same volume.
| Plan footprint (W x H) | 48in x 96in |
|---|---|
| Units | inches |
| DXF version | R2018 |
| Insertion datum | back-left corner of the rack, hung at ceiling |
| Parameter | Default | Range / options |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 48in | 24in–96in |
| Length | 96in | 48in–144in |
A two-post or four-post vehicle lift in plan, drawn with its bay. It is the defining piece of a home workshop or a service bay, and unlike a bench or a cabinet it commits the slab, the ceiling height and usually a dedicated circuit, so it is placed before the storage rather than after it.
132x180in default for a two-post - 11 by 15 feet. Width adjusts 108-168in and depth 144-240in. The wide end covers a four-post with drive-on ramps and a long-wheelbase truck. Slab thickness is the other half of the sizing and is not drawn here: a two-post lift concentrates the whole vehicle weight on two baseplates and typically needs 4in of reinforced concrete at minimum.
Datum is the near-left corner of the bay. The rectangle is the BAY, not the posts - the drive-on clearance and the door swing of the car being lifted are inside it, which is why the footprint is larger than the equipment. The `kind` parameter switches two-post to four-post and changes what is drawn; pick it before sizing, because the two have different clear-width needs.
Takes a car-plan block on it to prove the bay, a workbench along one wall and an air compressor within hose reach. Check the ceiling: a two-post lift raising a 60in-tall vehicle wants roughly 12ft of clear height, which is more than a standard garage has, and that is the constraint that usually kills the idea.
| Plan footprint (W x H) | 132in x 180in |
|---|---|
| Units | inches |
| DXF version | R2018 |
| Insertion datum | near-left corner |
| Parameter | Default | Range / options |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 132in | 108in–168in |
| Depth | 180in | 144in–240in |
| Kind | two-post | two-post / four-post |
A passenger car drawn in plan at 6 by 16 feet - the block you drop into a garage, a driveway or a stall to answer the question the dimension strings do not: does the car actually fit, with the doors opening and something still in front of it. It is a check block rather than a building element.
72x192in default - 6 by 16 feet, a mid-size sedan including mirrors. Width adjusts 60-84in and depth 168-228in, spanning a compact car at the low end to a full-size pickup or SUV at the high end. Draw the largest vehicle the space has to take, not the average one: a 228in truck in a 20ft garage leaves under two feet.
Datum is the near-left corner of the bounding box, so it aligns to a stall line or a garage wall directly. Drawn on an annotation or reference layer rather than a construction layer - this is furniture for a check, not something being built, and it is usually frozen before the sheet is issued.
Sits inside a vehicle-stall or a parking-stall, in front of a workbench or a garage storage cabinet to prove the remaining clear depth, or under a vehicle lift. It is also the fastest way to show a driveway actually works, which is otherwise a conversation rather than a drawing.
| Plan footprint (W x H) | 72in x 192in |
|---|---|
| Units | inches |
| DXF version | R2018 |
| Insertion datum | rear-left corner of the car footprint; the car noses toward +Y and drives out that way |
| Parameter | Default | Range / options |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 72in | 60in–84in |
| Depth | 192in | 168in–228in |
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A bench and a cabinet that take floor depth, a rack that takes none, and the car to check them against. Open one in the editor or take the DXF.
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