Questions this guide answers
How do I upload a venue floor plan to Floors.live?
Create a new event from your dashboard, press Create Event and choose Upload a floor plan. You can add an image such as a JPEG, PNG or WebP, or a PDF or DWG drawing, which is converted to a high-resolution image. The plan becomes the background you design on, and you set its scale next.
How do I set the scale on a floor plan image?
Click both ends of a wall or room whose real length you know, type that length as printed on the plan, for example 79'-8½", and press Apply Scale. From then on every table, chair and measurement matches real-world size, and Smart Layout spaces tables using the actual room dimensions.
How can I check that my floor plan scale is correct?
After applying the scale, click both ends of a second known distance, such as another wall or hall with a printed length. Floors.live shows its measured length in feet and inches. If it matches the plan, press Looks Good. If it is off, recalibrate using two points you know the exact distance between.
Is it free to upload a floor plan and set the scale?
Yes. Every feature, including plan upload and scale calibration, can be tried within the 10 minutes of free editing time each account gets in total. To keep editing a specific event with no time limit, unlock it for $20, paid from your credit. Credit packs start at $39 and the credit never expires.
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The White House, to scale, in one minute.
You're on your dashboard, with the venue's floor plan saved.
Click New Event, name it, and pick the venue from the search.
Add the room and the date, then the guest count. Open More options and choose Gala.
Press Create Event, choose Upload a floor plan, and add the White House ground-floor plan.
Click both ends of the East Room, type its length as printed, and press Apply Scale.
Check it on the Cross Hall: seventy-nine and a half feet. Spot on. Press Looks Good.
Now zoom in and start designing. Every table is true to the room's real size.
Next: fill the room with Smart Layout.