The Exhibition Floor Plan (EFP) provides many tools for assigning exhibitors, drawing booths and shapes, and highlighting and manipulating your floor plan. See below for an overview of using the Exhibition Floor Plan.
To access a floor plan for an event:
- Click the Events link from the Main Menu. The Events page opens.
- Select the event for the floor plan.
- Right-click and select Floor Plan -> View Floor Plan. If there are multiple floor plans for the event, the Select Floor Plan window opens. If there is only one floor plan, the floor plan opens in a new browser tab.
- Select the floor plan you want to view from the Floor Plans drop-down.
- Click Continue. The floor plan opens in a new browser tab.
The ribbon at the top of the screen has three tabs: Home, Draw, and Display. There is also toolbar available on left of the screen.
Home Tab
The Home tab contains the most frequently used tools. The available tools include:
- File – Contains the options to export, import, print and publish the floor plan, to access the floor plan settings, to save the floor plan as a master layout and to reload the floor plan.
- Place Exhibitor – Places an exhibitor in a booth.
- Propose to Exhibitor – Creates a booth proposal for an exhibitor.
- Move – Moves a placed exhibitor to another booth.
- Release – Removes a placed exhibitor the booth the exhibitor is in.
- Duplicate – Copies any booth, shape or text.
- Add booth – Contains the options for drawing a booth: Add Rectangle, Add Booths From Layout, Add Multiple, Add Numeric and Add Polygon.
- Combine - Combines two or more booths.
- Split – Splits booths into smaller booths.
- Format – Options for how booth attributes (banner name, booth number, etc.) display.
- Show Sides – Highlights all booth edges not adjacent to other booths.
- Change – Changes the booth number.
- Delete – Deletes the object.
- Move – Moves the object.
- Undo - Undoes the previous action. Only available for actions that are not saved.
- Cancel – Removes any pending changes or exits the tool you are currently using.
- Redo - Redoes the previous action. Only available for actions that are not saved.
- Options – Opens the right-click menu. This is often used for touch screen devices.
- Resize – Resizes the object.
- Rotate – Rotates the object.
- Show Highlighting – If selected, the booths meeting the highlight scheme requirements are highlighted. If unselected, the highlighting does not display.
- Add Highlight Scheme – Creates the highlighting rules for the floor plan.
- Quick Highlight – Highlight selected booths without creating a highlight scheme.
The Draw Tab
The Draw tab contains the tools to draw non-booth objects and text.
- Add Shape – Create the following shapes: Circle, Arc, Line, Polygon or Rectangle.
- Border Color – Color for the border of the shape you are adding.
- Fill Color – Color for the inside of the shape you are adding.
- Add Text – Enter and place text on the floor plan.
- Font Family and Size – Font type and font size for the text.
- Font Formatting – Choose to bold, italicize or underline the text and select the text color.
- Modify Layer – Changes the layer the selected object is on.
- Measure Distance – Provides the distance between two points, and is saved in the drawing.
- Query – Provides the distance between two points, but it is not saved in the drawing
The Display Tab
The Display tab contains the snap options and grid options.
- Show Grid – Turns on and off a grid that overlays the floor plan that you can snap to for precise drawing.
- Reset Grid – Resets the grid to a selected point on the floor plan.
- Grid Size – Changes the size of the grid.
- Grid Angle – Changes the angle of the grid.
- Show Legend – Displays the highlight schemes for the floor plan.
- Show Overlap – Highlights any booths that overlap other objects. Helps to determine if booths were drawn correctly in AutoCAD.
- Snap – Turns on and off snapping to the grid.
- Unit Setting – Determines the units you snap to when you move or draw objects and/or booths.
Toolbar
- Selection Tool – Default selection tool to select objects.
- Select Multiple – Allows you to select multiple objects of the same type.
- Select Booth Attributes – Allows you to select parts of a booth (booth number, banner name, etc.).
- Exhibitor List – Opens a screen with all exhibitors for the event.
- Layers – Opens a screen with all layers imported for the drawing.
- Quick Find – Opens a screen where you can search booths and exhibitors.
- Zoom In – Zoom in on the entire floor plan.
- Zoom Out – Zoom out the entire floor plan.
- Pan – Move left, right, up, or down the floor plan.
- Zoom Select – Zoom in a selection of the floor plan.
- Zoom Reset – Resets the view to the default zoom level.
Comments
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Placing an exhibitor does not work.
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Hi Jean,
Can you provide more information? What do you mean by does not work? Do you get a message? Or an error? Do you not see an available option? If you can provide us some more information, we will be better able to help.
Thanks,
Maggie
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Somehow, the home zoom on my floorpan has set to a tiny image. Is there a way I can return it to normal?
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It's OK - found the cause - a stand had been created in the middle of nowhere, this expanded the size of the plan - could be useful if anyone else tries to troubleshoot the same problem :)
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Thank you for posting the solution Theresa!
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Hello,
How can we delete an imported floor plan please ? It was only for a test and I can't find a button to delete it.
Thank you in advance
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Hi Laurie.
Please locate the floor plan and "Mark For Delete" on that row. The floor plan will be located in the Floor Plan section tab or the Documents section tab depending on which release you are accessing.
Danna Banick
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Hello Danna,
I'm sorry but I don't see the "Mark for delete" line. Could you send me a screenshot to find the right way to go there please ? I tried by going to the Event menu > Floor plan.
Thank you for your help !
Laurie
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Laurie Gendre
If you go on the event tab and navigate down to the documents tab on the event.
You will see the different floorplans and other documents, here you can right click on the floor plans and then right click mark for delete and this way clean your event from incorrect floor plans :)
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Hello Alexander,
Unfortunately I don't have my floorplans in the documents section, only invoices, emails and dropped documents
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Hello Laurie,
Depending which version you are running, the floor plan will be on either of the two tabs.
Here are some items to check:
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Hello Danna,
Thank you so much ! Indeed we didn't have the Floor Plans Tab !
Kind regards,
Laurie
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I am happy to hear of your success! - Danna
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