Not every industrial site is a clean rectangle. Infill parcels come with angled property lines, easements that clip a corner, or a setback that jogs in right where you need a loading dock. The usual answer is to shrink the whole building down until it clears the conflict — which can cost far more square footage than the actual obstruction. Building notches let you cut away just the corner or the wall segment that's actually in conflict, and keep the rest of the footprint at full size.
Square or angled, right at the corner
Open a building's Configurator and click bays on the preview to shave a corner off — a stepped, square cut, or a single angled bevel wall that follows a property line straight across. Select as many or as few bays as the site calls for, in any order; the tool resolves whatever you've clicked into the largest cut that's actually buildable. A square-cut corner keeps loading docks available on the new wall exactly like a normal face, so notching a corner off doesn't mean giving up dock capacity there — an angled bevel is for matching a boundary line where doors don't make sense.
A recessed bay for dock doors, corners left full depth
The more common infill pattern isn't a diagonal corner at all — it's an inset loading area in the middle of one wall, with both corners left at full depth for truck maneuvering. Select the interior bays of an edge instead of a corner and the wall recesses in behind them while its two corners stay put, exactly the layout real industrial buildings use to fit dock doors and a turning apron without pushing the whole building line back. Dock doors and an optional truck court still work on that recessed wall precisely like they would on any ordinary side.
More square footage, sites that actually pencil out
Because a notch only removes the bays that are actually in conflict, the rest of the building stays at the size the site can support — instead of downsizing an entire rectangle to clear one corner, you keep every square foot everywhere else. That difference is often exactly what separates a site that looks impossible on the first pass from one that pencils: the dock count, the parking ratio, or the target building size the deal needs, without giving up ground the parcel never actually took away from you.
Corner and mid-wall notches live right in the Industrial Building Configurator and the Manual Dock Editor, work in 2D and 3D, and are free with an account, alongside the rest of the Industrial Building tools.