Outdoor concert stage layout template — 25 × 20 m

The scene

An outdoor concert on a riverside field. The truss stage has an LED screen behind it and the band on it: drums at the back, keys and guitars to the sides, with the PA flown left and right of the stage. The audience stands on the grass in front, inside retractable-belt barriers. The mix position is in the middle of the audience, so the engineer hears what they hear.

When it helps

• The promoter or production manager needs to confirm stage size and truss quantities with the hardware supplier.
• A site application needs a drawing that shows the stage, the barriers and the power position.
• You want to know where the mix position goes and how big the audience area should be.

What’s already laid out

• A truss stage built from 2 m and 4 m sections — only two lengths in the list — with an LED screen at the back.
• A flown line array each side, the bottom box 4.2 m off the ground, and a row of subwoofers along the front.
• Band positions on stage: drums, keys, guitar amps and three monitor wedges along the front edge.
• The front-of-house desk in the audience, 7.8 m from the stage edge.
• Retractable-belt barriers round the audience area and the desk.
• Two cable runs: the audio multicore from the desk to the stage, and mains in from the generator position.
• Plus 33 figures for scale and circulation. If you don’t need them, delete them all in one go.

Making it yours

1. Press “Start from this one”. The template opens in the editor as your own drawing; whatever you change, the original template stays as it was.
2. Change the stage width by changing the truss length; the section count recalculates.
3. Change the site size in the Space panel. One grid square here is 2.5 m, which suits large sites.
4. Barriers are drawn in runs — drag an end to change the area, and the post count in the list follows.
5. For anything missing, press Components at the bottom: search by name and click to place it. Select what you don’t need and press Delete.
6. When the layout is right, press Download at the top right to save it as an image, then drop it into a deck or send it as it is.

What to settle first

1. Build the stage structure first. Nothing can be hung until the truss and deck are set.
2. Then hang the sound and lighting, checking the hanging points are on the truss.
3. Place the band on stage and the desk in the audience, on the stage’s centre line.
4. Fence the audience area last and run mains and audio.

What you end up with

A layout drawing

Download it as a PNG or JPG, at a resolution that holds up in a deck or a proposal.

An object list

The name and quantity of everything on the drawing. Change the drawing and the list changes with it.

A length for every cable

Power and signal runs have a length as soon as they are drawn. Order from those numbers.

A link to send

Once you sign in, the drawing can become a link that opens in any browser.