VENUE & CABINET PLANNING
Machine space planner.
Explore how many identical rectangular cabinet spaces fit inside a usable rectangular room. Include the clearances you choose and compare two regular grid orientations.
- 01 Enter your project details
- 02 Review the calculation
- 03 Take the result into a quote
YOUR WORKING ESTIMATE
Your planning result
Enter your own figures to see a result.
- Two grid orientations
- Compare the same cabinet envelope at 0° and 90°.
- Clearance included
- See the space allowed around each cabinet.
- A layout starting point
- Keep the dimensions for a site-specific review.
HOW IT IS CALCULATED
Plan each cabinet together with its clearance.
The planner builds a rectangular cell for one cabinet, including your left, right, front and rear clearances. It compares a repeated grid of that cell with a grid rotated 90 degrees.
- Planning cell
- Cell width = cabinet width + left + right clearance. Cell depth = cabinet depth + front + rear clearance. The entered clearance applies separately to each cabinet.
- Grid count
- For each orientation, whole columns × whole rows = cabinet spaces. The larger of the two counts is shown; mixed-orientation arrangements are not optimized.
- Worked example
- A 6 × 4 m room and a 1 × 1 m cabinet with 0.5 m front clearance and zero other clearances produce a 1 × 1.5 m cell: 16 spaces in the 0° grid, 12 when rotated 90°. This is a geometry example only.
- Measure the actual site
- Use clear floor dimensions after excluding obstructions and any shared aisles. Confirm whether supplier L/W labels correspond to the cabinet width and depth you need.
BEFORE INSTALLATION
A grid is a starting point for a layout.
The result is not an approved floor plan or a safe occupancy limit. Entrance routes, player reach, queues, ventilation, door swing, servicing, power, accessibility and local fire rules must be checked separately. The tool does not choose a safe clearance for you.
Unit reference: NIST length definitions. One inch is exactly 0.0254 metres.