Design it before you build it

What you do in Design mode

• Plan on the 2D canvas and switch to 3D at any time: place, drag, rotate and delete racks and coolers.
• Add any device: pick it from the catalog (category, brand, model, or search, with the drawn front panel, U, depth, weight and idle, typical and max power), or describe your own once and reuse it by name. Place it at a free U, or outside a rack on a desk or shelf.
• Live checks as you place things: U overlaps and collisions, rack weight, clearance, breaker and PDU load over 80 %, heat above cooling capacity, single-feed devices.
• N−1 resilience audit: fail each cooler, UPS module, feed and switch in turn; the report lists what survives and what does not.
• Versions: publish a design and keep working on the next; re-upload the as-built file later and get a change list of what differs.
• Estimates, labelled: kW and heat per rack come from catalog values and carry the “estimated” tag until real readings arrive.
• Excel export: download the model as the filled template; it re-imports to the same devices, custom devices, cables and power chain. A BOM export Roadmap

Design → Monitor in one tool

This is the point of the product. The design you win the project with is the model the customer runs on for years: no re-entry into a DCIM, no second drawing. Import the as-built and Monitor takes over the same racks, chains and cables. A Design customer who goes live gets the first three months of Monitor free.

AI design assistant Roadmap · included at no extra cost

Describe the room in a short brief: floor area, available kW, the cooling you can get, the workload (“64 GPU training nodes, 2 PB storage, 40 general servers”), redundancy target, budget and growth. The AI design assistant will propose rack count and density, row and aisle layout, air versus liquid, UPS and PDU sizing with A/B chains, cooling units, fire zoning and a bill of materials from the catalog, with two or three alternatives (cheapest, densest, most resilient).

The assistant proposes; the engine verifies. Every proposal is loaded into the simulator and checked (U fit, weight, 80 % breakers, cooling against heat, redundancy paths) before you see it, and the output is the filled Excel template, so Design to Monitor stays one step. It is included in the Design license at no extra cost when it ships, and Design customers get it first as early access. Ask about early access.

For integrators and consultants

Put the twin in the proposal. Walk the customer through the room in 3D before a rack is ordered, show the N−1 audit, and stay on the twin after go-live. → Partner program

GPU cluster power planning in a small room is a density question: kW per rack, A/B feeds, cooling per row. Design mode shows the breaker and cooling consequences of each node you place. For the first numbers, use the rack power calculator.