{"id":3814,"date":"2024-10-03T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colada.info\/production\/room-planning-with-colada-designer\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:54:23","slug":"room-planning-with-colada-designer","status":"publish","type":"production","link":"https:\/\/colada.info\/en\/production\/room-planning-with-colada-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Room planning with colada.designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Graphic planning is just as much a part of the craft of event planning as budgets and production plans. However, it is often a dilemma for planners because creating a room plan is anything but easy &#8211; compared to filling an Excel spreadsheet with numbers or times. <\/p>\n\n<p>There are currently <strong>two main options<\/strong> for planners:<\/p>\n\n<p>A) The use of a <strong>CAD system<\/strong> to create the drawings or<br\/>B) Working with a <strong>planning basis<\/strong> (e.g. image\/PDF) of the location or hotel.  <\/p>\n\n<p>However, neither option is <strong>ideal<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n<p>A) A CAD system requires <strong>technical knowledge<\/strong> that most planners do not have.<br\/>B) Planners often use programs such as Miro or Canva to create room plans &#8211; <strong>but often fail because of the scale<\/strong> if the stages and floor plans <strong>do not match.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>What is needed is a solution that <strong>is easy to use<\/strong> but <strong>still precise<\/strong> when creating and editing room plans.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">colada.designer: Room planning for event planners<\/h3>\n\n<p>Wanted &#8211; found: <strong>colada.designer<\/strong> is aimed at all those who <strong>need to plan<\/strong> accurately and <strong>reliably but are not experienced<\/strong> in using a CAD system. It is a drawing program for event planners with the functions that are so important for them to create a room plan and share it with others. <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Functional principle<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The canvas has literally <strong>endless space<\/strong> for all your ideas, layouts and plans.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As the most important planning aid, floor plans can be stored on which the spatial planning takes place.<br\/>These can be imported as <strong>graphics<\/strong> (e.g. from a scan) or as <strong>SVG<\/strong>. The adaptation to the scale is done manually. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Any objects<\/strong> can be <strong>drawn<\/strong> in the room or simply <strong>added from the library<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Created drawings can be passed on <strong>digitally<\/strong> or as a <strong>PDF<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The drawing interface<\/h3>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-1536x923.png 1536w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-2048x1231.png 2048w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-8.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>Intuitive user interface, simple handling and yet accurate and true to scale.<\/strong> AND the <strong>libraries<\/strong> with the characters and symbols that are used every day are already included &#8211; that&#8217;s what sets <strong>colada.designer<\/strong> apart.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Layers<\/strong>, familiar from professional CAD systems, <strong>make work easier<\/strong> because the individual trades can be elegantly <strong>switched on and off<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step by step: Planning basis\/floor plan<\/h3>\n\n<p>As already described, one possible variant for creating a room plan is to work with an existing scan. This can be <g id=\"gid_0\">imported <\/g>into the <g id=\"gid_0\">drawing <\/g>and then <g id=\"gid_1\">transformed into the correct dimensions<\/g>. This means that 1m in the floor plan also corresponds to the same dimension in the drawing.  <\/p>\n\n<p>After inserting the background into the drawing, it is advisable to place it on a separate layer and lock this layer. Then it is still visible, but does not interfere with the subsequent work. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Furniture, equipment and technical connections<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>All possible elements<\/strong> that are important for the event in question can then <strong>be added to the drawing<\/strong>. For furniture, equipment and technical connections, we work with symbols that are labeled accordingly.   <br\/>The aim is to show roughly where the stage, emergency exits, catering and\/or screens are located. It is not about replacing a CAD plan. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-1024x510.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-1024x510.png 1024w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-1536x766.png 1536w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9-18x9.png 18w, https:\/\/colada.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-9.png 1862w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tables and seats<\/h3>\n\n<p>Tables and seats can be inserted in a wide variety of forms. Gala, parliamentary, concert &#8211; and table sizes, number of chairs, etc. can be freely defined for each variant.   <em>Further details can be found in the article Seat planning with colada.designer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publish and distribute drawings<\/h3>\n\n<p>The purpose of planning is to <strong>share<\/strong> these plans <strong>with others<\/strong> in one version or another. There are different ways to do this: <\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Distribution of the drawing <strong>via direct online link<\/strong>. <br\/>Users can open the drawing directly in the browser, zoom in and, if necessary, create a PDF of it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embedding in a page in <strong>colada.pages<\/strong><br\/>Publish a room as a room plan as part of an event. Users can work <strong>interactively<\/strong> with the plan as they would with Google Maps. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Create PDF<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Versioning<\/h3>\n\n<p>As in many other colada applications, variants of a plan can be <strong>saved<\/strong> as so-called &#8220;snapshots&#8221; <strong>and revived at any time<\/strong>. This means that the planning can be automatically versioned and documented. <\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion: An ideal solution without prior technical knowledge<\/h3>\n\n<p><strong>colada.designer<\/strong> offers event planners a user-friendly and precise way to create room plans without having to rely on complex CAD systems. The program <strong>simplifies the planning process<\/strong> and makes it possible to create <strong>precise room plans<\/strong> that can be easily coordinated with stages and floor plans &#8211; an ideal solution for planners without any prior technical knowledge. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[174],"production-category":[125],"class_list":["post-3814","production","type-production","status-publish","hentry","tag-spatial-planning","production-category-room-table-plans"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Room planning with colada.designer - colada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/colada.info\/en\/production\/room-planning-with-colada-designer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Room planning with colada.designer - colada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Graphic planning is just as much a part of the craft of event planning as budgets and production plans. 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