Understanding common VinLocate layouts

Almost every cellar and fridge people build comes down to four shapes. Recognise yours in the table below and a section is a handful of taps rather than a puzzle.

Tip

Requires a paid plan. Building sections is part of VinLocate, which a free collection does not include.

Note

Build the units you actually own, not one big box. A configured storage typically ends up with about three sections — one per rack, shelf or case that physically exists. That is what makes a coordinate mean something when you are standing in front of it.

The four shapes

What you are looking at	Build it as	Size it
A wooden case on the floor, bottles still packed inside	A Case	Nothing to size — a case is one container
A single row of bottles, side by side, one deep	Rack → Shelves → Flat	Eight across, one high, one deep
A fridge shelf where bottles alternate neck-in, neck-out	Fridge shelf → Flat, then Alternating Front	Eleven across
A tall grid of square holes	Rack → Trellis → Grid (diamond holes are Lattice)	Twelve across, nine high — two deep if the rack is

Loose wine cases and alternating fridge shelves are the two most common sections in InVintory, so if one of those is what you have, you are on the well-trodden path.

Setting the size

Every section is sized with three steppers — Column, Row and Depth. Read them as across, high and deep, and count the real holes rather than the bottles you own today.

1. A Rack offers all three. Depth is 2 when the rack holds one bottle behind another.
2. A Bin offers Column and Row only — a bin holds as many bottles as you pile in, so there is no depth to set.
3. A Case offers none.

Sections → Create → Rack → Grid → bottle direction → Column, Row, Depth → Save

Slots you don’t have — a corner cut out, a shelf that stops short — are removed afterwards with Remove bottle slots, not by shrinking the whole section.

The full shape menus

Rack groups its shapes as Trellis (Grid, Lattice), Wall Mounted (Horizontal, Flat), Shelves (Horizontal, Vertical, Flat, Tilted) and Special Display (Rotating).

Bin groups them as Rectangles (Square, Rectangle, Cross Rectangle, Half Rectangle, Diamond), Isosceles Triangles and Right Triangles.

A fridge offers six shelf types instead: Flat, Lattice, Horizontal, Vertical, Tilted and Bins.

Next steps

• How to create sections in a storage — the build, step by step, on every platform
• How to create a VinLocate shelf for your fridge — the six fridge shelf types in detail
• Common VinLocate terms — rack, bin, case, slot and depth defined