Build the actual room
Draw walls to measured dimensions or import an existing plan as a scaled background. Add doors, pillars, fixed furniture and other constraints before testing capacity.
For professional planners and venues
Event floor plan software that takes a layout from brief to build
Metis Room Planner combines measured room drawing, real furniture footprints, 2D plans, interactive 3D views, client review and operations handover. The plan your client approves is the plan your team can set.
What professional event layout software needs to solve
A sketch can communicate an idea. A working event plan needs dimensions. Start with the room envelope, doors, windows, pillars, fixed bars and loading access. Then place tables, chairs, stages, dance floors, screens, production equipment and service points at their real sizes.
The difficult part is not drawing circles in a rectangle. It is keeping enough space behind occupied chairs, preserving useful aisles, protecting entrances and exits, maintaining sightlines and leaving practical routes for waiting staff and technicians. Metis gives planners a drag-and-drop event floor plan creator, then adds auto-layout, optimisation and fit checking when the arrangement needs to be tested.
Planning capacity is not legal occupancyMetis helps establish whether an event arrangement is physically workable. Legal maximum occupancy is determined by fire safety, exit capacity, licensing and the responsible authorities; it is not produced by an area calculation or by Metis.
A practical event planning workflow
One plan, developed in stages, with fewer assumptions lost between sales, client services and operations.
Place real event equipment
Use correctly sized round and rectangular tables, chairs, staging, dance floors, bars, screens, lighting and production positions instead of generic shapes.
Check fit and movement
Generate layout options, inspect chair clearances and walkways, identify clashes and compare the effect of different table sizes or seating styles.
Move from 2D to 3D
Use the 2D plan for precision, then walk or fly through the 3D layout to check guest experience, focal points and sightlines.
Give clients a clear review route
Share a secure review link. Clients can view the design in 2D and 3D and leave comments without installing software or creating an account.
Turn approval into instructions
Create a printable operations pack with the plan, equipment pull list, supplier and sign-off columns, load-in zones, setup notes and approved-plan reference.
Why accurate room dimensions come first
A 20 × 15 metre room is not automatically a 300 m² blank canvas. A bar recess, fire doors, columns and a stage can divide it into smaller usable zones. Long, narrow rooms also behave differently from square rooms with the same area because more floor is consumed by cross-aisles and circulation.
For early qualification, use the venue capacity calculator. Once a venue is shortlisted, recreate its true outline in Metis and test the complete brief.
Make the next handover unambiguous
Label the focal point, table numbers, guest-facing entrances, catering access, bar queue, production position and no-storage routes. Keep a single approved version and make late changes on the same plan. That is more useful than a beautiful visual that leaves the setup crew guessing.
Planning a particular format? See the wedding floor plan guide or compare conference room layouts.
Create a plan your client and crew can use
Start with the measured room, test the layout in 2D and 3D, collect approval and hand over the same plan for setup.
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