Pharmacy and drugstore layout software
Pharmacy and drugstore layouts in 3D, with the dispensing room and the wait.
Laydyne lets you measure a pharmacy’s dispensing room and sales area and try the morning’s prescriptions with more pharmacists or an assistant. Check a drugstore’s extinguishers and security cameras on the same model, and prepare the plan for the fit-out.
Start with a free account. Simulations are estimates and require Pro.
- 12.2 × 8.2 mModel floor dimensions
- 37Parts in the model
- 11Articles with worked results
What you can do for this space
Dispensing room and sales area
Measure the rooms against Japan’s pharmacy rules.
Prescriptions and pharmacists
Compare pharmacists and assistants by the patients’ time.
Fire checks
Inspect selected Japanese fire-safety criteria.
Security cameras
Compare camera counts and locate cameras from photos.
Pharmacy plans
Present the pharmacy in 3D and export the plan.
Pharmacies & drugstores · Dispensing room and sales area
Size the dispensing room and the pharmacy to the rules.
Draw the dispensing room, the counter area and the waiting and sales area, and measure them against the sizes in Japan’s rules for pharmacies and drugstores. Read the floor left clear in the dispensing room, and check the passages and doors.
- Measure the dispensing room
- Count the pharmacy’s rooms together
- Check the passages and doors
Results from worked examples
Dispensing room and sales area: all articles for this use
Pharmacies & drugstores · Prescriptions and pharmacists
Try the morning’s prescriptions with the pharmacists you have.
Set the prescriptions over a morning and the time to dispense, check and counsel for an approximate session. Add a pharmacist, or an assistant who gathers the medicines, and compare how long patients spend in the pharmacy.
- Set the morning’s prescriptions
- Compare pharmacists and assistants
- Inspect the patients’ time in the pharmacy
Results from worked examples
Prescriptions and pharmacists: all articles for this use
Pharmacies & drugstores · Fire checks
Check the extinguishers and the walk to the nearest one.
Give the store’s use and total floor area to check whether it needs extinguishers and how many units. Measure the walk from every part of the floor, round the shelves, to the nearest extinguisher, and try another position.
- Count the extinguisher units
- Measure the walk to an extinguisher
- Try another extinguisher position
Results from worked examples
- With a fourth extinguisher on the west wall of the sales floor, every part of the 852.04 m² drugstore is within a 20 m walk of one.
- Adding 1 extinguisher by the drugstore's west wall gives 12 extinguisher units and a farthest walk of 18.57 m, within 20 m.
Pharmacies & drugstores · Security cameras
See what the cameras cover, and from where.
Weight the entrance and the checkouts and compare wall cameras with all-round ceiling cameras. Locate a camera already in place from one photo with its lens, and check that the toilet and the staff room stay out of view.
- Compare wall and ceiling cameras
- Locate a camera from a photo
- Check rooms that must stay out of view
Results from worked examples
- Eight wall cameras and eight all-round ceiling cameras both pass 90% (91.3% and 92.9%).
- Of the 171.81 m² of floor the actual camera sees, the solved camera agrees on 98% (both see 169.56 m²).
- The camera solved as a fisheye is 0.02 m from the actual one and agrees on 99.9% of the 221 m² of floor the actual camera sees.
Pharmacies & drugstores · Pharmacy plans
Give the owner and the fitter one plan to work from.
Inspect the counter, the dispensing room and the shelves in 3D. Export the floor plan as PDF or SVG, with a quantity sheet of the drawn fittings.
- View the pharmacy in 3D
- Export the plan as PDF
- Add a quantity sheet to the PDF
Start with your space
Open a model for free
Open the pharmacy or the drugstore model and adjust its counter, rooms and shelves.
Start from this model for freeAsk your AI
Ask the AI to measure the dispensing room, compare the morning’s staff or place the cameras.
Are the rooms big enough for a pharmacy, salon, day service or clinic?
In this tenancy (as drawn), check whether the pharmacy's waiting and sales area, counter area, dispensing room and stock room together, and its dispensing room, reach the sizes in the Ordinance on Buildings and Facilities for Pharmacies.
Quotation from Read the article
How many security cameras?
I want security cameras in this shop (as drawn). Weighting the door and the checkouts, how many do I need, and where, so that 90% of what must be seen is seen? Check, too, that the toilet and the staff room are not seen.
Quotation from Read the article
Check, export and share
Review the assumptions and the plan, then export it for the fit-out.
Models you can start with
Pharmacy: a dispensing room behind the counter and a waiting area
A 100 m² dispensing pharmacy: a waiting area with shelves of over-the-counter medicines, the dispensing counter, and behind it the pharmacists’ counter area, an 11 m² dispensing room, a stock room, a staff room and a toilet, ready to check the pharmacy’s size and its dispensing room’s against Japan’s pharmacy standard.
- Articles
- Size
- 12.2 × 8.2 m
A free account is needed to start.
Drugstore: a single storey of 864 m²
A single-storey suburban drugstore of 36 × 24 m: a sales floor with nine gondola runs and a refrigerated case, three checkouts by the automatic doors, a dispensary on the east wall, and the stock room, office, staff room and toilets along the back, with three fire extinguishers, ready to check how many extinguisher units its floor asks and whether every part of it is within 20 m walking of one.
- Articles
- Size
- 36 × 24 m
A free account is needed to start.
Frequently asked questions
Is the dispensing room big enough?
The dispensing room is 11.20 m², more than the 6.6 m² the rule requires.
Read the articleHow many fire extinguishers, and where?
With a fourth extinguisher on the west wall of the sales floor, every part of the 852.04 m² drugstore is within a 20 m walk of one.
Read the articleHow do you cut the wait at a pharmacy?
An assistant who gathers medicines whenever free cuts a patient's time in the pharmacy from 30.2 minutes to 17.9 minutes, about as much as a third pharmacist (17.6 minutes).
Read the articleYour pharmacy, built with AI.
Pharmacy: a dispensing room behind the counter and a waiting area
Start from this model for freeArticles for this use
Dispensing room and sales area (2)
Is the dispensing room big enough?
The dispensing room is 11.20 m², more than the 6.6 m² the rule requires.
Are the rooms big enough for a pharmacy, salon, day service or clinic?
A four-bed room of 23.92 m² is enough for a clinic, but a hospital may put only 3 beds in it.
Prescriptions and pharmacists (2)
How do you cut the wait at a pharmacy?
An assistant who gathers medicines whenever free cuts a patient's time in the pharmacy from 30.2 minutes to 17.9 minutes, about as much as a third pharmacist (17.6 minutes).
How long are the waits at a clinic or hospital?
At a dental clinic with two dentists, the wait for a free chair is 9.4 minutes with 30-minute slots and 0.1 minutes with 45-minute slots, though the bookings fall from 30 to 20.
Fire checks (2)
How many fire extinguishers, and where?
With a fourth extinguisher on the west wall of the sales floor, every part of the 852.04 m² drugstore is within a 20 m walk of one.
Fire rules for tenant buildings and shops, in 5 examples an AI checked
Adding 1 extinguisher by the drugstore's west wall gives 12 extinguisher units and a farthest walk of 18.57 m, within 20 m.
Security cameras (5)
How many security cameras does a drugstore need?
Eight wall cameras and eight all-round ceiling cameras both pass 90% (91.3% and 92.9%).
Where a security camera is and what it sees, from one photo
Of the 171.81 m² of floor the actual camera sees, the solved camera agrees on 98% (both see 169.56 m²).
Locate a 360° ceiling camera and what it sees from one fisheye photo
The camera solved as a fisheye is 0.02 m from the actual one and agrees on 99.9% of the 221 m² of floor the actual camera sees.
How many security cameras?
In ten facilities counted on the plan, six cameras see 91.9% of a convenience store; in a warehouse, ten see 83.0% and sixteen see 94.3%.
What can an AI tell from photos?
Solved with a model of its lens distortion, the wide-angle camera's position came out 0.06 m from the real one, against 1.12 m without it.