Plan the floor before you touch it
Open any room as a 2D floor plan or a 3D view, drop racks onto the tile grid and see at once whether they fit, clear the doors and face the right way.
Racks that cannot be misplaced
Every drop is checked against the room edge, other racks, door clearances and no-go zones before it is accepted.
Aisles worked out for you
Hot and cold aisles come from the way racks face, with warnings for racks facing the wrong way and containment set per aisle.
Try it without touching live
Save a layout to a plan scenario, or describe what you need and let Generate layout draw ranked options.
From setup to answer in four steps
Set up the room
Give a room its size and tile size and the raised floor tile grid is laid out for you.
Draw what is already there
Add doors with their swing, columns, cooling units, power cabinets, risers, no-go zones and cable entries, each with its own keep-clear distance.
Place the racks
Drag racks onto the floor. They snap square to whole tiles, or to a 100 mm grid when you hold Alt, and rotate in 90 degree steps.
Review and save
Colour racks by power, weight or cooling headroom, switch layers on and off, then save. Nothing is written until you do, and there is undo and redo.
What you can do
Start from the drawing you already have
Load an image, a PDF page or an ASCII DXF drawing as the background. Scale it by clicking two points a known distance apart, then set offset, rotation and opacity. The calibration is saved with the room.
Placement that checks itself
A rack outside the room, overlapping another rack, blocking a door clearance or sitting in a no-go zone is refused. Front and rear service clearances come from the rack or its rack type.
Describe a layout and get options
Type a request such as six 8 kW racks, N+1 power, hot aisle containment. Generate layout draws up to three ranked layouts, each checked for placement, power and cooling. The one you accept is saved as a plan scenario, never straight onto live records.
Works with the rest of the platform
Racks and equipment
Drag equipment onto a rack elevation and know instantly whether it fits: space, depth, weight, power and reservations are all checked as you mount.
Read moreCapacity planning
Ask the question in the form it is asked on the floor. NetCosm answers yes or no, names the limiting factor and shows the records it used.
Read moreCabling and connectivity
Patch by dragging between ports, let NetCosm route cables along your trays and work out the length, then trace any circuit end to end.
Read moreFrequently asked questions
Can I start from our existing CAD drawing?
Yes. Load an image, a PDF page or an ASCII DXF, then calibrate it by clicking two points a known distance apart.
Is there a 3D view?
Yes. The planner switches between a 2D plan and a 3D view of the same room, and each room also has a read-only 3D view.
What stops people placing racks where they cannot go?
Every drop is checked against the room edge, other racks, door and service clearances, and no-go zones.
Does it understand hot and cold aisles?
It works out aisles from the way racks face, warns about racks facing the wrong way, and lets you set containment per aisle.
Can I try a layout without changing the live record?
Yes. Save to a plan scenario, or use Generate layout, whose accepted proposals become scenarios.
Can it suggest a layout?
Describe what you need, for example six 8 kW racks with N+1 power, and it draws up to three ranked layouts checked for power and cooling.
NetCosm is hosted in the United Kingdom, so your rack, power and network records stay in the UK.
See it on your own floor
Book a demo and we will walk through it with your rooms, racks and addresses in mind.