Table Designer in Event Design App builds one complete event table — table model, linen, chairs, plates, flatware, glasses and centerpiece — in a live 3D preview. You then insert it and use Quick Layout, which repeats the set in presets like Grid or Circle, so a 200-guest room takes minutes instead of placing every chair and plate by hand.
Scope: Table Designer is available to anyone who can edit the plan. Quick Layout works in 3D plans only. Items marked Available on Plus or Pro need a Plus or Pro plan; everything else works on Free.
Setting a 200-guest room by hand means placing twenty tables, two hundred chairs, and every plate, fork and glass on top of them. Table Designer builds one complete table — then fills the room with it.
Open Table Designer from the Catalog panel on the left and start on the Table tab.
[SCREENSHOT 1 — the wizard open: tab strip, live preview]
The live preview shows everything as you build it. Drag inside it to orbit and check your work from another angle. Nothing reaches your plan until you insert.
📺 Table Designer — 12 minutes, the whole tool start to finish.
In Table Designer, Table Category offers With Linens and Without Linens. With Linens separates the table choice from its linen (tablecloth) picker, so you choose the table first and dress it in the next step.
Open Choose to inspect the models. The catalog model (the table item you pick) determines the actual shape — and shape determines which seating controls you get. A round table gives you a single seat count; a rectangular table gives you per-side control. Start from the foundation that suits the design.
⚠ There is no table size field. To change dimensions, pick a different catalog model. Read the model dimensions before you continue.
Set Number of Tables if you want more than one identical set.
[SCREENSHOT 2 — Table tab, With Linens / Without Linens filter highlighted]
Open the linens picker and search by name — "burgundy", "ivory", "navy". Selecting the linen returns you to the configuration; there's no separate Apply step.
Wait for the preview to finish loading, then inspect the tabletop edge and drape. Pick a finish with enough contrast that your place settings stay readable against it.
⚠ Changing the table resets the linen. If you go back and swap the table model, reopen the linens picker and choose the linen again.
Choose a chair model, then set how many chairs sit at the table.
On a round table, set Seats and chairs redistribute around the perimeter. Spacing follows the table and chair geometry — so inspect the actual gaps rather than trusting the number. Six at a 60″ round is comfortable; twelve is visibly tight, and the crowding degrades the place settings as much as the chairs.
On a rectangular table, open Advanced seating for four independent counters — Top, Right, Bottom, Left. A typical six-seat setup is two on each long side and one at each end. Six on each long side plus two ends gives 14 seats and an obviously crowded preview.
Check the corners, where side and end chairs approach each other. If it's still tight, reduce the count or choose a table-and-chair combination with more room.
[SCREENSHOT 3 — Advanced seating, four per-side counters]
Chair colors. Open the chair's Object Colors card. Some models expose more than one material — a Tiffany chair has a frame and a seat. Change the frame to warm gold, leave the seat white, and Apply. If a model has no editable material controls, choose a compatible alternative rather than assuming every asset behaves the same way.
💡 Get the foundation right before adding accessories. Table, seating and finish repeat across every copy you generate later. A mistake in the table, seating or finish repeats throughout the room — and it's far easier to fix now.
Table Designer builds the place setting — the plate, flatware and glassware (the dishes, silverware and cups) at each seat — across three tabs.
Tab | Slots |
|---|---|
Plate | Plate |
Flatware | Fork 1, Fork 2, Knife, Spoon |
Glasses | Glass, Second glass |
⚠ One configured slot creates that item at every generated seat. Setting the plate slot doesn't mean one plate on the table — it means a plate at all six covers.
You don't need to fill every slot. A simple setting might be one fork, a knife and a single wine glass, leaving the second fork, spoon and second glass empty. Add each item, check it against the plate and the tabletop edge, then move on.
Each selection card gives you Choose, Change and Clear. Clear removes one item; Clear section removes that section's selections.
Some items are marked Available on Plus or Pro — those models need a Plus or Pro plan. Everything else works on Free.
The centerpiece is one item placed at the middle of every generated table — and footprint matters more than appearance. A long table garland eats the center of a round table and crowds the surrounding settings; a floral arrangement of the same visual weight fits.
Check footprint and height, and keep it clear of the plates, utensils and glassware. A longer arrangement may suit a different table shape, but let the table you've chosen decide what fits.
Clear slot removes it so you can compare alternatives cleanly.
Open Place Setting Builder from any place-setting tab. The builder controls where each item sits at a cover, not just which item it is. Position the plate, forks, knife, spoon and glasses around the seat, and the layout clones to every seat.
Use it when your house standard differs from the default.
[SCREENSHOT 4 — Place Setting Builder with a cover laid out]
Orbit the preview one last time and confirm the whole set: table, six chairs, six plates, forks, knives, wine glasses, centerpiece. Then choose Insert.
The editor selects the new assembly — the table with all its chairs, place settings and centerpiece, grouped. A six-seat set is about 32 component objects, so the selection count is much larger than the number of tables — that's expected. Wait for all assets to appear before judging the result.
Check it moves as one. Switch to top view. With the assembly selected, drag the move handle, then Rotate and drag the rotation handle. Table, chairs, place settings and centerpiece should travel together.
Now deselect and click a single chair seat. The editor should report all 32 objects selected again. This check catches accidental edits to only part of the arrangement — worth doing once so you know what correct looks like.
Quick Layout repeats one inserted table assembly in a preset pattern, so you don't copy and paste tables one by one. Select the assembly and choose Quick Layout in the Properties panel (3D plans only). A Quick Layout window opens. The preset icons choose the arrangement, and the fields below them change for each preset.
💡 This is the short version. Every preset's exact fields, the spacing rules and the full set of gotchas are in Use Quick Layout presets.
The eight presets are Grid, Angled Grid, Rows, Diagonal, Curved, Circle, U Shape and Pyramid.
Before you choose Apply, read the counters: Total items (table assemblies), Selected objects (components in each assembly), Total objects (all components) and New objects (what Apply adds). A 2×2 grid of a 32-object table set is 4 items and 128 objects.
Set the fields, check the preview, choose Apply. Undo reverts a layout, so you can try presets against the same source set.
Three that behave unexpectedly:
Circle has no radius input. Size the ring with Gap Between Items. At 3 ft the tables and chairs intersect; 16 ft opens it up.
U Shape shares its corner positions. Three in the first row plus three on each wing totals seven sets, not six.
Pyramid builds from first-row count and increment: 1 item, +1 per row, 3 rows = rows of 1, 2 and 3 — six sets.
⚠ Spacing is a layout parameter, not a guarantee of comfort. 12 ft between columns measures table centers. Judge the real free space from the chair envelopes and the routes between tables — inspect them end to end, including chairs that extend into the aisle.
[SCREENSHOT 5 — Quick Layout applied, overhead view of the full room]
Inspect the finished layout (your seating chart) from top view, then switch to perspective to check chair orientation, place settings and centerpiece height.
⚠ A blank practice canvas has no walls or doors. In your real room, check entrances, circulation and the other furniture before treating the arrangement as finished.
Save, return to the project, and reopen the plan. Confirm every table is there. Saving and reopening is the only way to be certain the assembly persisted.
Build a complete table set. Compare a round table with a rectangle.
Adjust the seating and add only the settings you need.
Insert it and confirm its parts move and rotate together.
Try Grid, Angled Grid, Rows, Diagonal, Curved, Circle, U Shape and Pyramid.
Deliberately make one crowded, then correct it.
Choose the arrangement that suits your room, inspect it from above and in perspective.
Save, reopen, verify.
My linen disappeared. You changed the table model, which resets the linen. Reopen the linens picker and choose it again.
I can't find where to set the table size (make the table bigger or smaller). There isn't one. Dimensions come from the catalog model — pick a different table.
The chair color options aren't there. Not every model exposes editable materials. Choose a compatible alternative.
I only have one seat count and I need per-side control. You're on a round table. Per-side counters appear for rectangular tables under Advanced seating.
My circle layout has tables intersecting. Increase Gap Between Items — there's no radius control.
My U Shape made seven sets, not six. Corner positions are shared between the first row and the wings.
An item says "Available on Plus or Pro". That model needs a Plus or Pro plan.
Open Table Designer, choose a table model, linen, chairs and place settings, then select Insert. Select the inserted table and open Quick Layout to repeat it as a Grid, Rows, Circle, U Shape or other preset. A 2×2 grid of six-seat sets places 128 objects at once.
Yes. In Table Designer, swapping the table model resets the linen selection. Return to the linens picker, search by name such as burgundy, ivory or navy, and choose the linen again. There is no separate Apply step; selecting a linen returns you to the configuration.
No. Table Designer has no table size field. Dimensions come from the catalog model you choose, and the model's shape also decides your seating controls: round tables give one seat count, rectangular tables give per-side counters. To change the size, pick a different table model and read its dimensions first.
Six chairs at a 60-inch round table is comfortable in Table Designer; twelve is visibly tight and crowds the place settings. Set Seats on a round table, then inspect the actual gaps in the live preview rather than trusting the number, since spacing follows the table and chair geometry.
In Quick Layout, the U Shape preset shares its two corner positions between the first row and the wings. Three in the first row plus three on each wing therefore totals seven sets, not six. Read the Total items counter before you choose Apply to see the real count.
Partly. Any Table Designer item marked Available on Plus or Pro needs a Plus or Pro plan, while everything else works on the Free plan. If a model you want carries that label, choose an unmarked model or upgrade your plan.