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Your ShowKeep cases become ShowPlot's truck pack

Packing a truck well is a spatial problem, and ShowPlot is a spatial tool. ShowKeep knows your cases and what is in them; ShowPlot knows the truck. Put together, you load the truck on screen before you load it for real.

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The case shapes, weights, and contents you keep in ShowKeep drop into ShowPlot's truck pack, so you load the truck on screen before you load it for real.

What ShowKeep provides​

In ShowKeep, an inventory item can be a case: a Pelican, a road case, a rack, a trunk. A case carries its real attributes:

  • Exterior and interior dimensions, and weight.
  • Caster size and load rating, and rack spaces where it applies.
  • Attributes such as stackable, rides on top, and do not flip.
  • A dedicated home: gear that always travels in its own case, so the case knows what it should hold.

When you pack gear into cases for a job, ShowKeep records what is in each case, including cases nested inside other cases.

What ShowPlot does with them​

Open the truck pack tool on a ShowPlot project and it asks ShowKeep for the cases your job needs. It can work from:

  • Pulled cases, the real case units already checked out to the job.
  • Estimated cases, worked out from the unpulled gear and its dedicated case homes, so you can plan before you pull.

ShowPlot then lets you:

  • Pick a vehicle preset (a 53 foot trailer, a 26 or 16 foot box truck, a sprinter van, or a custom size) and set the interior and wheel wells.
  • Auto-pack: heaviest cases first, stacking only stackable cases, keeping a clean strap line every six feet.
  • Drag and rotate cases to repack by hand.
  • Print a pack sheet with a top-down view, a front view down each strap line, per-layer stacking views, weight totals, and load bar placement.
Plan the truck before you pull the gear

Because ShowPlot can estimate cases from your dedicated case homes, you can see how many cases a job will need, and whether it fits the truck, before anyone opens a shelf.

What you need​

  • The case shapes come from ShowKeep, so this works best with ShowKeep on Max or the bundle. Cases themselves are available on every ShowKeep tier; importing them into ShowPlot is part of the ShowKeep integration.
  • The pack sheet export follows ShowPlot's normal export rules: a watermarked image on Free, a clean PDF on Pro and Max.