Gate Swing & Clearance Calculator
The gate type you can use often comes down to space. Enter your clear opening, and this shows how much room each type needs — the swing arc, the sliding runback, or the cantilever tail — so you can pick the one that fits.
The clear gap between the gate posts. Not sure? The Gate Width Calculator sizes it from your vehicle.
Indicative only. These are planning rules of thumb — a swing arc equal to the leaf, a sliding runback equal to the opening, and a cantilever tail of roughly half again. Your fabricator confirms the exact geometry for the specific gate, and a heavy or automated gate has its own clearances and safety zones (automation is covered in the Security hub).
Related Guides — Deep-dive reading
Swing vs Sliding vs Cantilever Gates in India: Which to Choose (2026)
The how-it-opens selection guide for your compound gate — swing on hinges, sliding on a ground track, or cantilever carried on a counterbalance tail with no track — compared on the one thing that actually decides it: the space each one needs beside or in front of your opening, plus slope, width, budget and fit.
Compound WallsCompound Gate Design in India: Types, Materials and Sizing (2026)
The start-here guide to the gate as the moving part of your boundary wall — how it opens (swing, sliding, cantilever, folding, telescopic), what it is made of (MS, wrought iron, stainless, aluminium, wood), how wide it needs to be for your vehicle, how it is finished against rust, and the posts and footing that carry it. Decisions in order, with automation and security cross-linked, not rebuilt.
Compound WallsFolding and Telescopic Gates in India: Space-Saving and Wide-Span (2026)
The space-saving and wide-span specialist gates explained for Indian plots — bi-fold and multi-fold gates that stack concertina-style into a shallow fold, telescopic sliding gates whose nesting panels need only a fraction of the opening as runback, and where each beats a plain swing or sliding gate on space, span, cost and complexity.
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