Plant and warehouse equipment - tanks, pallet racking, conveyors, dock levelers, scales, chillers and compressors. These are the blocks that set aisle geometry and mechanical room size, so they are drawn at real equipment footprints. Downloads are DXF in inches.
34 blocks in 7 families. DXF R2018, drawn in inches.
Warehouses, breweries, cultivation facilities and plants are laid out around equipment, and these 33 blocks are the equipment: pallets and pallet racking, a forklift and pallet jack, conveyors, tanks, a brewhouse with mash tun, kettle, whirlpool and hot liquor tank, fermenters and brite tanks, chillers, compressors, a boiler, scales, trench and floor drains, grow benches and a mezzanine stair. The process engineer or facility planner draws them on the equipment plan, and NCS reserves the Q discipline for equipment, so Q-EQPM is the natural layer, with drains on P-FIXT for the plumbing engineer.
These are drawn at real footprints because they drive the building. The pallet is 48 x 40 in, the GMA standard, as are the IBC tote and the eight-keg pallet. A single pallet-rack bay is 100 x 46 in for a 96 in beam and 42 in deep frame; the three-bay run is 292 in. The counterbalance forklift is 42 x 96 in with 42 in forks, and the pallet jack 27 x 57 in with its handle. Brewhouse vessels default to 72 in diameter, fermenters to 60 and brite tanks to 66, and the chiller is a 48 x 96 in pad.
Aisles are the dimension that makes or breaks a warehouse plan. Size them from the right-angle stacking figure on the truck manufacturer's data sheet, not from the forklift's length, and check that the stair and any mezzanine egress stay clear of the travel lanes. For tanks, leave access to the manway: the vessel blocks mark whether it is on the side or top. The drying rack stands free because air must reach all four faces.
Datum habits for this set: vessels and tanks insert at their center, which is the point you set on a column grid or a slab pad. Racks, conveyors and trench drains insert at the near-left corner and run along +X, so set the bays or length parameter rather than stretching. The mezzanine stair inserts at the bottom of its run with 12 treads by default; confirm tread and riser against the IBC for the occupancy.
All of it downloads free as DXF, DWG or PNG, and the CADdillo browser editor at app.caddillo.com lets you set bays, diameters and lengths and lay out a floor without AutoCAD.
Plan-view footprint in inches. Each name opens the block's section on its family page, with DXF, DWG and PNG downloads.
The standard North American GMA pallet is 48 x 40 in, with 48 in the stringer length. The pallet block is drawn at 48 x 40 in and inserts at its near-left corner. The IBC tote and the eight-keg pallet use the same 48 x 40 in footprint so they stack into the same rack positions.
A single selective rack bay with a 96 in beam and 42 in deep frame measures 100 x 46 in including uprights. The multi-bay run defaults to three bays at 292 x 46 in and takes 1 to 10 bays with beam lengths of 48 to 144 in. Both insert at the near-left upright and extend along +X.
Defaults are 72 in diameter for the mash tun, brew kettle, whirlpool and hot liquor tank, 60 in for the fermenter and 66 in for the brite tank, all adjustable from 48 to 96 in. Each inserts at the vessel center; the manway parameter shows whether access is from the side or the top.
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