​In case you need to define cargo to be used repeteadly, define it in Predefined section of Add Cargo tab and you can use it for all your future loadings. It will be there for you.

Predefined cargo can be add to your plan quickly by defining Quantity, selecting your predefined cargo and pressing Add to Plan button. Your cargo will be visible in right part of application window.
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Here you can define if boxes are stackable, their stackable weight limits, if you want to turn them around axis Y only or all axis, etc. You can also adjust quanity and dimensions if needed.

Next step is to say what equipment do you want to use. You can choose among trucks, containers or pallets. Or you can define your own equipment by pres plus button to add a new one.

To choose equipment into your project, go to Add Container tab, select equipment and press Add button. You will see your equipment on the right side under Containers tab.
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Here you can change the payload of the equipment you do not want to exceed when loading boxes, as weel as dimensions, like max height of pallet, etc.

When you have defined your cargo and equipment, e.g. pallets in this case, go to Visualization tab and press Auto Load button. After a while (depends on quantity of boxes) you will see 3D visualization on the left side and number of pallets on the right side.
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Your can rotate 3D by your mouse, you can display box id by clicking corresponding mark button and preview all pallets by clicking arrow buttons.

Next step is to exporting your loading plan if needed or you can skip this step if you want to proceed with loading your pallets to truck or container.

You can export your loading plan in PDF, RTF (rich text file editable in word processors) or XLSX formats, by pressing Export button.
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You can also include step by step visualization, so loading plan can show you loading progress e.g. how it looks after 6 boxes until equipment is full.

In order to load your pallets into container or truck, press the Load as pallets button. You will get a new window where you can choose the container or truck type and define stackability, turnability and if you wisht to preserve max height of pallet or
use loaded pallet height.
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Press Add Pallets to Plan to proceed to next step.

Now you can see your pallets loaded and you can export your loading plan by pressing Export button.
Usage is analogical to the step 4.

Loading cargo is not always easy and takes a lot of time. There are too many aspects that must be considered. LoadCargo.in makes it easier. Using 3D visualization you can better get a picture of how many containers is needed. Also you can use manual mode, if automatical mode do not fit your needs. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contac us. 
We are able to communicate in few languages. As we operate from Czech Republic in the middle of Europe, we can answer your questions in Czech, Slovak, Polish and also German language. But main communication language remains English of course. Please, whenever you will have any question, let us know. We are here to make your life easier. Please, visit our showroom to check the screenshots and videos to get a better idea of how application looks like and works.

LoadCaro.in enables exporting of loading or stuffing plan. You can choose from pdf or rtf format and it's also possible to send the link to the customer, so he can see loading plan interactively. In order to fully satisfy our customers, we offer 14-day trial fully functional demo, downloadable from our website LoadCargo.in. We also offer 30-day no question money back return policy and in order to make it really simple for our customers, we offer on-line skype demo session, where potential customers can ask questions as well. Our main goal is not to make a money, but deliver useful tool and make life of people from logistics industry a little bit easier. Of course, sales help us to continue and make it better and better. We spent a lot of time with programming LoadCargo.in and we want to see our application to be used by thousands of companies all over the world. This is our primary goal.

You can try load cargo as it would be container or ideally you can use level by level approach. We call it XZY, so boxes are loaded in axis X, Z and then it starts new level from back of the truck, which is axis Y. (Y is vertical)
(will be amended soon)

And here is continuation of our story. :)
How to let the World know about our LoadCargo.in? That was vital question. We do not send a spam, because it's illegal, if we do not have recepient's approval. So we sent paper letters via snail mail and are heavilly dependant on Google adWords and Bing Ads. This costs us a lot of money, but we know we have a good product and it will payoff. We also work on SEO of course. Doing all this bring us visitors and their valuable email addresses they leave us if they download 14-day trial version.

Typical container is usually loaded from the back to the front. We call it YXZ way. It means, first boxes are stacked at the back of the container and gradually moves to the front of the container. Loading algorithms belongs to so called heuristic algorithm. It's important to be aware of the fact, that not all loading must be perfect. It's not possible to create an algorithm solving all loading scenarios optimally. At the beginning it was difficult to realize, as we wanted to deliver perfect solution.

To be more personal again :), I was lucky I had around few supporters and mentors, who helped me to continue and improve. And I still have them. That is very important, because such project can't be a one man show, also in relation to customer support and future development. There is a lot to do in terms of functionality, system coherence, design, payment systems, marketing, advertising, testing, surveys, etc. Also, since we started to sell LoadCargo.in over the internet, we found several supporters from early customers who help us with testing and give us very useful feedback helping us improve.

At the beginning I had to concentrate on container loading. I had quite a big headache with monitoring which parts of the container are already loaded, where are free spaces, what is their maximal width, length and what is remaining height. :) I found good approach after all, but during the time I had to change it completely several times, mainly because I wanted to also support not only metric system, but also imperial one. Of course, all this took me huge amount of time. Several times I wanted to quit, because ration between time and possible earnings started to be very disadvantageous. By today I spent around 1500 hours, most of my evenings and weekends. As you can feel, I don't have children yet and my wife is very tolerant and supportive. :)

To be continued...

Before I started to programme, I was sure I want a platform, which can be used not only on windows, but also Mac and Linux. I chose Adobe Air which object oriented programming language Actionscript 3.0, which is very close to Java. Future will show if it was wise decision, but until now I did receive only one complaint, because Adobe cancelled security support for Linux. You can still use LoadCargo.in on Linux, but adobe air framework for linux is not updated anymore. That's life. :)

To be continued...

In 2012 I started to work on LoadCargo.in. I liked the "in" so I chose indian domain. Don't know if it was clever or not, but for now it did not bring me any problems. So far so good.
As I mentioned in my last blog, when I started with loading algorithm, I was exhausted by so many difficulties I had to face and solve. Also, my imagination was not that strong at that time, so I desperately looked for some help. I found help in LEGO. I made container, boxes of various dimensions and before I went to sleep, I started to play with it. Every evening for a month before I got some ideas. :)

To be continued...

13 years ago I started to work on cargo loading optimization system. I was able to solve 3D view math only and then I got tired as loading algorithm math was too complex to me. I was not able to figure out, what box should I start with and how to proceed. Also if I took into consideration all aspects like weight, stackability, stackability limits of overlapping boxes, turning and rotating of the boxes, I was exhausted and frustrated. So I went to ride on my bike and postponed this project to "later".

After 8 years I showed it to one of my other project customer and he was sure, I should finish it. But why, if there were already more applications on the market solving cargo loading problem?

In next 2 years my colleagues asked me to finish it, as they were not satisfied with current applications on the market. I was still not sure, if it's worth of the time it will take, but part of my programmer's soul was telling me, I should try it to see, if I will succeed.

To be continued...