SolarCAD places every table or tracker inside your boundary, groups them into ITS stations, positions the string combiner boxes, routes the cabling along roads and trenches, pools the substations, and hands you a DXF drawing set and a bill of quantities. The kind of work that takes a design engineer days.
public/images/hero-layout.png — a filled plant in top viewNot a rooftop tool. SolarCAD is built for ground-mount plants where the hard part is not drawing panels — it is the grouping, the cabling and the quantities.
Fixed tilt or trackers, full and half tables, road grids, periphery ring road, setbacks and no-table zones. Rows are held strictly inside the boundary, including concave corners.
ITS grouping to your AC capacity, SCB placement packed to your strings-per-box limit, and cabling routed along roads and trenches — never across a table.
An Excel workbook down to per-ITS, per-SCB and per-table detail, with cable lengths taken from the routes actually drawn, not estimated.
Import a DEM, georeferenced against your KML site. Slope banding shows what is buildable; drop everything above a threshold and see the capacity cost immediately.
The 21 December, 9am–3pm criterion: the window your row pitch actually achieves, the pitch it needs, and which rows your ITS stations and substations shade.
Import multiple boundaries and lay each out independently, with substations pooling across parcels and cabling routed between them.
Four steps. The whole loop is fast enough to try three layouts before lunch.
Output your drawing office and your estimator can use directly.
Boundary, exclusion zones, setback, internal and periphery roads, every table or tracker on its own ITS layer, SCB boxes with tags, ITS stations, substations, cable runs and slope bands — each on a named layer you can freeze and thaw.
Plant summary, per-ITS capacity, per-SCB detail, and a hierarchical ITS → SCB → table sheet with tags, configuration, modules, kWp and cable lengths for every run.
public/images/dxf-sample.png — the exported drawing open in CAD| Mounting | Fixed tilt (2P, 4P and other orientations, half tables) and single-axis trackers (1S/2S/3S/4S, mixed on one site) |
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| Site input | DXF with layer mapping · KML / KMZ with true coordinates · drawn by hand · several parcels in one plant |
| Terrain | GeoTIFF DEM, georeferenced to the site · slope banding and exclusion · shadow criterion and equipment shadows |
| Electrical | ITS grouping by AC capacity · SCB packing by strings per box · trench and road cable routing with capacity limits · string home-runs · substation pooling |
| Output | Layered DXF (R12) · Excel BOQ workbook · cloud projects you can reopen and re-run |
The full feature set, exactly as it appears inside the app.
A Basic plan is available for smaller plants, with limits on plant size and saved projects. Ask us which fits your work.
Send us a boundary from a live project and your usual design parameters. We will build the layout with you on a call — your units, your standards — and send you the DXF and the BOQ afterwards. No obligation.