Room size and real measurements

Your floor plan is drawn to scale: one step on the plan is one centimetre in the room. A standard round table is about 1.6 m (5½ ft) across. So once you tell us how big your venue is, you can see what really fits before the day.

Set your room size

1. 1

   Open Room

   On the floor plan, click Room in the toolbar. It sits just after More.
2. 2

   Pick your unit

   Choose m or ft at the top. We start in feet in the US and metres elsewhere. Your choice is remembered on this device.
3. 3

   Enter the size

   Type the width and length, or pick Small hall, Medium hall or Large hall. Under the boxes you’ll see how many guests fit at tables like yours, spaced the way Auto-arrange would place them.
4. 4

   Save it

   Click Set room size. The walls appear, with the size written above the top-left corner.

What changes with a room

• The floor stays the size of your room. Adding or moving tables never makes it bigger.
• A table with any chair past a wall gets a red dashed outline, and a note at the top says how many tables are outside. Drag them back in.
• Auto-arrange lays tables out inside the walls, packing them closer (60 cm, about 2 ft, between chair backs, in straight or staggered rows) if it has to. If they still can’t fit, nothing moves and we tell you roughly how big the room would need to be. See Arrange tables automatically.
• Changing the room size never moves a table. Making it smaller only flags tables that end up outside.

To go back to a floor that grows on its own, open Room and choose Freeform (no room).

Real table sizes

Open a table’s details (double-click it). Under Real size you’ll see its size in both units and the sizes venues and rental companies use: 5 ft, 5½ ft and 6 ft rounds, 6 ft and 8 ft rectangles, and longer banquet tables. Pick one, or choose Custom to type your own. The chairs move to fit straight away, and undo works as usual.

Scale bar and spacing

These appear once you’ve set a room size. A freeform floor looks just as it always has.

• The scale bar in the bottom-left corner shows a round distance, like 2 m or 5 ft, and adjusts as you zoom.
• While you drag a table, a small label shows the clear gap to the nearest table, measured from chair back to chair back. Under 60 cm (about 2 ft) it turns amber and says Tight: guests won’t be able to walk behind seated people. Around 60–90 cm is normal at banquet tables, and at 90 cm guests and servers can pass comfortably.
• Select a dance floor, bar or other object to see its size in its toolbar.