Powerful CAD Software for Designing Parking Sites

ParkCAD® is an advanced CAD software that gives users the right tools to design parking layouts quicker and smarter than traditional CAD methods. With powerful layout optimization and editing tools, users with minimal training can design parking layouts that conform to regulations and increase your team’s productivity. Save time and money by reducing the time-consuming redrawing of parking layout designs. Planning becomes easier with real-time stall counts and powerful reporting abilities for estimating quantities.

What Makes ParkCAD Unique

Parking layouts in seconds

Spend seconds instead of hours designing parking lots by selecting the boundaries and letting the software decide and optimize your parking lot. Customize rows and parking elements from a list of possible solutions suggested by the software.

Maximize your space

With land real estate costs at an all-time high, maximize your space efficiently and update the lot’s perimeter boundaries and reduce its footprint. Let the software determine the optimal layout for your required number of parking stalls or minimize the area of paved surfaces by removing oversized drive aisles.

Different types and stall sizes for your design

Use guidelines or design standards from over 20 jurisdictions from around the world to ensure conformity to regulations, or make your own custom standards that can be easily saved and shared. Add accessible parking and receive up-to-date reports ensuring regulations are met.

Reduce drafting time with powerful editing tools

With the click of a button, change the angle of the parking stalls in your row or the row length by simply dragging the endpoints. Easily edit/change or add the location of your parking lot entrance and automatically see the updated layout and stall count.

Keep safety and efficiency in mind

Increase the safety of your parking lot and improve the aesthetics by distributing underused aisle space with center walkways or landscaped areas between parking rows. Compare designs or develop staging or phasing options with our convenient feature that can save, update, and load multiple design iterations of a parking layout in a single drawing.

Easy-to-use reporting tools

Quickly calculate the percentage of accessible parking stalls and estimate the construction costs of the designed parking arrangement. Create attractive presentations using realistic paint line widths, arrows, symbols, curbs, and patterns from an extensive library of CAD blocks and hatches.

Features

Powerful Parking Layout Design and Editing Software

Design functional parking lots while balancing costs and optimizing space. With a full set of versatile design tools, laying out various plans becomes effortless, along with the ability to customize parking stalls. Maximize land usage and efficiency by reducing the paved areas by adding natural spaces, such as grass, shrubs, trees and more. Combining landscaping within the parking lot design helps to absorb stormwater runoff and enhance the aesthetics of the site, as well.

Generate Lots

ParkCAD takes seconds to lay out parking rows and aisles within a closed boundary. Individual rows can be made from lines, arcs or by selecting endpoints. Define exclusion areas where parking will not be generated, i.e. structures and roads. Easily choose between the default setting dimensions or set your desired dimension and size of stalls, islands, aisles, and symbols.

Multiple Parking Standards

Regional design guidelines ensure conformity to regulations. For your convenience, we have incorporated design standards that conform to regional design guidelines from over 20 jurisdictions around the world.

Accessible Parking

Add accessible parking based on guidelines and vehicle type based on your lot’s needs. Receive up-to-date stall counts along with the number of accessible stalls ensuring regulations are met.

Optimize Parking

Find which row layout and rotation produce the maximum parking spaces within a parking boundary. Choose from a list of different solutions. Save and compare various iterations and develop the best layout option for detailed design.

Create Custom Parking Stalls

Easily define and mark different types of specialized parking stalls, such as valet parking, police, taxi/bus stands, and shopping cart corrals, with either default or customized symbols. These types of custom stalls are reported separately from standard stalls for cost estimation. Your parking rows can contain different types of stalls.

Easy Editing Tools

Change your row length by dragging end points or change the angle of your parking stalls in your row with a click of a button. Place parking around other objects such as buildings or roadways by defining the outer parking boundary and selecting one or more areas where parking is excluded.

Vehicle Entrance and Flow

Change the location of your entrance to your parking lot and see how your layout and your numbers of stalls change – easily edit and add extra entrances. Add traffic flow arrows to determine the direction of vehicle movement for either one-way or two-way traffic.

Maximize Your Space Efficiently

Remove oversized drive aisles and minimize the paved surface area by updating the lot’s perimeter boundaries and reducing the parking site footprint. This allows the user to leave room for landscaped areas.

Center Paths

Distribute underused aisle space by adding center walkways or landscaped areas between parking rows to increase safety for pedestrians.

Visualize Vehicle Movements

Easily visualize vehicle movement – see vehicles enter, circulate around aisles, access parking stalls, and exit the parking lot, or just use the arrows to visualize vehicle movement within the parking lot.

Reporting and Comparison

Select groups of parking rows and lots to calculate the current stall count and the percentage and number of accessible parking stalls. Compare designs or develop staging or phasing options with our convenient feature that can save, update, and load multiple design iterations of a parking layout in a single drawing.

Quantity Takeoff Reporting

Lengths, areas, and quantities for all ParkCAD objects in the layout can be calculated and reported. These items can then have assigned pricing providing total costs and costs per stall estimates. All of these options are easy to use and update.

Presentation

Use realistic paint line widths, and add arrows, symbols, curbs and patterns from an extensive library of parking area-related CAD blocks and hatches.