The Leading AutoCAD-Based Solution for Retail Space Planning

Today’s retailers face constant challenges in allocating and tracking their valuable retail space. Auto-Space Planner from Hagerman & Company helps retailers meet those challenges. Compatible with AutoCAD 2000 and above, Auto-Space Planner provides the tools necessary to quickly, easily and accurately create and update your space plan drawings.

Only with the advent of AutoCAD 2000 and Microsoft .NET, has it become possible to develop an AutoCAD-based solution offering true retail space planning productivity.

Some of Auto-Space Planner’s key features include:
 

Ability to work with existing CAD data and space planning information

Full associativity between and automatic updating of adjacent departments, departments and sub-departments, and selling and non-selling areas thus eliminating errors and mistakes

Full flexibility in defining department and sub-department names and hierarchies along with stock, fitting, check out, loading areas, etc

Support for multi-level retail facilities

Automatic detection and prevention of overlapping boundaries, unallocated areas and improperly allocated areas

Automatic reporting on:

Selling vs. non-selling area Area allocations by department Current area allocations vs. previous allocations Current area allocations vs. target allocations Projected sales per square foot

Small command set with no need for a high level of CAD knowledge

Ability to read information from and write information to your other financial and retail reporting systems

System Architecture and Requirements
Written in Microsoft .NET
Runs in Windows 98 and up
Runs in AutoCAD 2000 and above
All information is stored as part of the AutoCAD drawing and can be output to any ODBC-compatible database or ASCII text file

 

An AutoCAD-Based Solution:
Many other solutions use a proprietary graphics tool for space planning rather than AutoCAD. With AutoCAD, retailers can have an integrated solution for:

Retail space planning
Fixture design and layout
Detailed store construction drawings
Store remodel drawings
Fire protection and other safety drawings
Working with their architects and other outside consultants
Submitting approval drawings to building inspection and other agencies
3D visualization and walkthrough’s utilizing other Autodesk products

Retailers have found that the proprietary graphics tools for space planning that are included in the integrated systems lack the CAD tools necessary for performing these other design and drawing functions. As a result, moving to one of these other solutions would force them to maintain two non-integrated sets of store design and layout drawings.

In fact, for the above reasons, many retailers use one of the integrated solutions for other functions, but still use an AutoCAD-based tool for space planning