Converting a tennis court to pickleball: dual-use lines or a full conversion
Dual-use lines or a full conversion, how many pickleball courts a tennis pad really holds, what changes on the ground, and how to draw it first.
Guides
Guides to planning a court facility
Long-form guides on laying out pickleball, tennis, padel, volleyball and basketball facilities: footprints, overlays, checks, costs and hand-off.
Take over, convert, or build new: pricing a court facility
The three ways into a court facility, what each adds to the up-front cost beyond the courts, and how to turn a layout into a payback figure you can check.
Multi-sport gym layouts: overlaying basketball, volleyball and pickleball
How to overlay basketball, volleyball and pickleball on one gym floor, keep the run-off honest, and catch painted lines that land on top of each other.
Sun and shadow studies for outdoor courts: orientation, fences and readable lines
How to orient outdoor pickleball, tennis and padel courts for the sun, and use a sun and shadow study to keep fence shadows off the lines.
How to lay out a court facility: CAD vs. purpose-built tools
How Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, RoomSketcher and DIALux fit in pickleball, volleyball or padel facility design, and when a purpose-built planner saves time.
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