INTRODUCING PERFORMANCE SEATING
Audience Seating Automation for Autodesk Revit
What is Performance Seating?
Performance Seating is a Revit add-in that takes the tedium out of laying out audience seating for theaters, concert halls, arenas, houses of worship, and any other live-event venue. Instead of arraying generic blocks and patching the geometry by hand, you draw a row reference, pick a focus point, and let the application place seats that are correctly sized, properly staggered, and ready to schedule. Purpose-built seat families are paired with a calculation engine that handles the spacing, ordering, and elevation work that would otherwise eat hours of design time — and keeps every row consistent when the room changes.
Features Include
Fixed, Portable, and Removable Seats
Choose from a library of seat families modeled to match real product lines from multiple manufacturers. Configure rows as fixed seating with proper end standards, as 1-, 2-, or 3-ganged removable seats on sleds, or as freestanding portable chairs — and switch between them without redrawing the row.
Multiple Seat Sizes
Generic seats ship in 19″–24″ widths in 1″ increments, giving the algorithm enough granularity to stagger cleanly and fill rows tight to the reference line. Imperial and metric custom sizes are fully supported when a project calls for a manufacturer’s specific dimensions.
Automated Seat and Row Numbering
Seats and rows are numbered automatically using your choice of four seat numbering schemes and three row numbering schemes — covering everything from straight sequential to house-left/house-right conventions. Seats are organized into section groups so schedules and seat counts come out right the first time.
Multiple Calculation and Layout Options
Performance Seating goes well beyond a simple array. Configurable algorithms determine the proportion of each seat size in a row, the order in which sizes are placed, and whether adjacent rows use an even/odd stagger or a mirrored stagger for sightlines. Seats can be locked to a reference plane or auto-aligned to an adjacent floor surface, so raked and stepped seating bowls follow the geometry without manual adjustment.
Get Performance Seating
The fastest way to evaluate Performance Seating is to run it against a venue you already know. Sign up for a free trial, download the installer, and the add-in will appear on your Revit ribbon the next time you launch.
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