Lesson 4 of 21 · 1:35
Venues, spaces & airwalls
Draw a ballroom once. Get every combination free.
Written guides for this lesson
- What is an airwall, and why does it change how floor plans work?
Airwalls are the movable partitions that split a ballroom into sections. EventDiagram draws the space once and derives every combination, instead of storing a separate floor plan per combination.
- How do I set up my venue and its event spaces?
Add the building once, then its event spaces with real dimensions and airwall sections. Every combination derives from there, so you never maintain a plan per combination.
- How do I get my venue's floor plans into EventDiagram?
Import a furnished PDF, draw the event space from real dimensions, or send us the plans and we convert up to five of your event spaces to scale, free.
Transcript
0:03Now the part that makes EventDiagram different from every other diagramming tool. Event spaces.
0:09Under Venues you'll find your property and its spaces, with the dimensions that actually matter.
0:15The Grand Ballroom is a hundred and fifty feet by ninety, with a twenty-four foot ceiling. Those are the real numbers, and everything downstream is computed from them.
0:24And it has airwalls — the movable partitions that split it into sections A, B, C and D.
0:31Here's what most tools make you do with that. Upload a floor plan for A. Upload another for A through B. Another for A through C. Every combination, drawn again, by hand, forever.
0:43EventDiagram draws the ballroom once. The sections are just data on top of it. So every combination already exists.
0:50Three spaces became twelve floor plans. Grand Ballroom A. A through B. A through C. B through D. None of them drawn twice.
1:01Every one is a real space with real dimensions and real square footage, ready to lay out. A through C is a hundred and twelve and a half feet wide — ten thousand square feet.
1:12When the walls move, the area, the section labels and the capacity all recompute together. You never maintain twelve drawings of one ballroom again.
1:22That's the foundation. Spaces are real, airwalls are data, and a diagram is a layout inside one of them. Now let's build one.