Object Library
Manage your bespoke venue collection here. These objects are drawn to scale by the VenueCAD team and added to your account. You have everything that you use at your venue, ready to go.
Your object library is organised into 4 categories -
- Tables And Chairs: Various shapes, sizes that you use. Each comes with different chair options.
- Exhibition: Stands, banners and booths.
- Audio Visual: Screens, lighting, sound.
- Miscellaneous: Everything else.
When you initially sign up for your VenueCAD account, you'll work with our team to put together your object library. You can of course edit or add to this at any time but we'll aim to have you set up with everything you need from the start. You can find out more about the venue onboarding process here
Requesting new objects
At any point you may wish to add a new object to your venue collection. You can do that by simply filling out our Object Request form and we'll prepare that object and add it to your account, usually within 24hrs.
Step 1 - Fill in the requested object details. This helps us to draw the object as accurately as possible.
- Object Category: Choose which of the four categories this object should belong to.
- Object Name: The bold title of the object on the object card.
- Object Subname: The lighter grey secondary title. Usually listed as the number of chairs.
- Description: Any helpful details around dimensions, chair placement etc.
- Maximum Chair Number: Unless requested, we always create objects with multiple chair number options. From this max number, down to no chairs.
- Default Chair Number: When you drop the object into your layout this is how many chairs it will have. You can then select from the available chair number options.
- Venue Availability: If you have multiple venues and some objects should only be available at specific venues, you can select those individually here.
Step 2 - Optionally you can now upload any photos that you may have taken for the object. This can again be useful to help us understand any details that may be helpful to represent in the object block.
The object request is complete. If you scroll to the bottom of your category list you can now see an object card for the requested object. Note the yellow Requested badge. You can click this card to update the details you've just entered, or add further images.
Top tip: If you are looking to add photos, then you may want to go through the object request process on your phone so that you can quickly fill in the details then add the photos directly as you take them. Remember the VenueCAD app works fully on mobile.
Update object details
Click an object card to edit certain settings. There are three slightly different types of object cards you may see. These will limit certain actions as outlined below -
- Standard: Objects drawn by VenueCAD, ready to use. Object cannot be deleted. Certain settings can be updated. To edit the appearance of the object itself please contact support@venuecad.com
- Requested: Note the Requested badge. You can edit settings, add or remove uploaded images and delete the request entirely.
- Custom: Note the Custom badge. This is displayed for custom objects that you or your team have created. You can edit and delete these as required.
You can find out more about creating custom objects here
Reorder object lists
You can control the order of the objects in each category. This matches what you see in your editor's "Add Objects" panel. You may wish to organise so your most used objects appear at the top of the list.
Once reordering mode is active - you can move objects up and down in the list with the arrow buttons. When you're happy with the order, click the blue tick button to confirm.
Back in the Editor, in the "Venue" collection, you can see that your objects panel shows the same order as set in your object library. You can optionally change the object sorting for this list using the little filter icon next to the search bar.