How to create seating blocks and aisles on the hall layout?
Layout for 72 seats: six rows, two blocks, central and transverse aisles. How to preserve unique numbers after copying.
Video tutorial 2 from the Evenda series on hall layouts. A step-by-step guide is provided below.
In the video: 0:24 — Several rows · 1:45 — Copying a block · 2:20 — Transverse aisle · 2:53 — Verification
What will result
Each of the six rows will have 12 seats: six on the left and six on the right of the central aisle. The transverse aisle will separate rows A–C from D–F. The total capacity will be 72 seats.
1. Create the first block
Open the layout and mark the stage. In the rows tool menu, select Multiple rows. Draw the first row horizontally, then move down to six rows and click to finish. Switch to Select, highlight the entire block, and set Number of seats = 6. This will result in 36 seats.
2. Adjust spacing and labels
Seat spacing adjusts the distance between seats, Row spacing is the standard gap between rows. The tutorial uses values of 7 and 20: these are units in the editor's design, not actual passage dimensions. Adjust the layout according to your hall's plan. In Row labeling, select A, B, C starting from A, in Seat labeling — 1, 2, 3 starting from 1. Enable Always show labels and assign the category Standard.
3. Create the central aisle
Highlight all six rows, click Duplicate, and move the copy to the right. Leave an empty space between the blocks and align the corresponding rows. In the right block, change Seat labeling → Start at to 7. Keep the letters A–F unchanged. Now the left side has seats 1–6, and the right side has seats 7–12: the pairs of 'row + seat' do not repeat.
4. Create the transverse aisle
Highlight rows D, E, and F simultaneously in both blocks and move the entire group down. A separate aisle will appear between C and D, while the standard spacing within groups will remain intact. Do not increase Row spacing for all rows if only one aisle is needed.
5. Check the result
Deselect: the summary should show 72 seats, with no duplicates, labeled and categorized. In Preview, check the seats on both sides, both aisles, and the correspondence to the actual plan. Wait for Saved, click Sync, and check the number of seats in the layout list.
Why do numbers repeat?
Duplicate copies labels along with the seats. If the right block also starts from 1 with the same row letters, duplicates occur. Change the starting numbering of the right block to 7. Aisles are formed by the free space between groups, so there is no need to remove seats for this example.
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