A car in front of a garage door
2 blocks of this library and 1 from another library · house front 17' 7"
Overall
Vehicles library · 28 blocks
Car CAD blocks in front and rear elevation
Free car CAD blocks in front and rear elevation for garage entrances, ramps, parking sections and street views: 21 cars from the front and 7 from the rear, with sedans and hatchbacks from the 1970s to the 2000s, sports coupés, a retro mini, a city microcar, a luxury sedan with a tall chrome grille and two SUVs; several are drawn at both ends, so a car can be shown coming and going. Each is drawn 1:1 in front or rear elevation and comes as DWG and DXF in meters and in inches, SVG and PNG.
- Blocks
- 28
- Types
- 4
- View
- Front & rear
- Units
- m · in
At the garage
All 28 car blocks
Every size side by side
All 28 at one scale, packed like a sheet of blocks, with a person standing among them for scale. Click a drawing to open its block; the width is under each one, the height and every format are on the block page.
The library on one sheet
The car drawings side by side, as on the library sheet.
Download the whole library
All 28 drawings of the library in one ZIP, one AutoCAD 2013 DWG per block, drawn 1:1, in meters or in inches. Each block page has its own files too, with DXF, SVG, PNG.
About the cars, front and rear library
What is in the library
28 blocks of 4 kinds, every car at its real width and height; the sizes below are the drawings' own, in feet and inches (switch units at the top of the page). By detail: 11 with round headlamps, 10 with a slatted or chrome grille, 7 with a 1970s or 1980s face, 7 with a 1990s or 2000s face, 2 with twin exhausts.
| Type | Blocks | Width | Height | Narrowest … widest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedans | 9 | 5' 10" – 7' 0" | 4' 4" – 4' 10" | 1990s compact sedan with round fog lamps5' 10" … 1980s sedan with large quad round headlamps7' 0" |
| Hatchbacks, minis and microcars | 14 | 4' 7" – 6' 10" | 3' 11" – 5' 5" | 1970s small hatchback with divided tail lamps4' 7" … 1990s hatchback with clustered round headlamps6' 10" |
| Sports coupés | 3 | 6' 1" – 7' 7" | 4' 6" – 4' 9" | Rounded sports coupé with oval grille6' 1" … Wide low sports coupé with grilled fog lamps7' 7" |
| SUVs | 2 | 7' 1" | 5' 4" – 6' 8" | Off-road SUV with stacked rectangular headlamps7' 1" … Tall boxy SUV with vertical slot grille7' 1" |
Drawings you can use them in
Garage entrances and ramps, parking sections, drive-throughs, toll booths and car washes, street sections seen along the road, and the elevation of a garage door with a car in front of it.
Numbers that work for most US projects: cars about 5 ft 9 in to 6 ft 3 in (1.75 to 1.9 m) wide without mirrors and about 7 ft (2.1 m) with them; garage doors 8 to 9 ft (2.44 to 2.74 m) wide for one car and 16 ft (4.88 m) for two; and a parking garage with 7 ft (2.13 m) of clear height (IBC 406.2.2), 98 in (2.49 m) on the route to the van-accessible stalls (ADA 502.5).
Questions
How wide are the cars?
From the front or the rear they measure 4' 7" to 7' 7" (1.40 m to 2.31 m) across (the wider ones with their mirrors) and 3' 11" to 6' 8" (1.19 m to 2.04 m) high.
Are there cars seen from both ends?
Yes: several cars come from the front and from the rear, among them a retro mini, a city microcar and a 1990s hatchback, so the same car can be shown coming and going.
Do the cars carry brands or badges?
No: the makers' emblems have been taken off; the cars are generic and fit any drawing.
Can I use them in Revit, SketchUp or ArchiCAD?
Yes. The DWG and DXF blocks open in any CAD program as 2D linework, in meters or in inches.
Are they free for commercial projects?
Yes. Every file is free for personal and commercial work, with no account and no watermark.
How designers use these blocks
- Garage doors and entrancesA car from the front in a garage door elevation shows the clearance on each side and overhead.
- Parking sectionsCars from the rear in a section of a parking structure show the bays, the columns and the clear height.
- Street sectionsCars seen along the road fill the lanes of a street section at their real width.
- Drive-throughs and car washesA car from the front at a window, a booth or a wash bay shows the reach and the lane width.
- Presentation drawingsSVG and PNG for rendered sections and elevations in Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma or Canva.
- BIM and other CAD programsThe DWG and DXF blocks import into Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, BricsCAD and SketchUp as 2D linework.
On every block page
Open any card above and you get these, for free and with no account:
- Drawing at scaleThe block beside a person, both at the same scale, and at its mounting height when it hangs or sits on a counter.
- Explore at scaleDrag and zoom the drawing on a grid at real size and measure any distance on it.
- How big is it?Next to a person and a door, with its footprint in square meters or square feet.
- On your sheetHow it prints at 1:20, 1:50 or 1:100 on A4, A3 or Letter, before you place it.
- In the roomRoom scenes built from the library, with the clearances checked.
- Every formatDWG and DXF in meters and in inches, SVG and PNG.
- DimensionsWidth and depth in both units, and every drawing to the same scale.