Kitchenplaner v0.1.0

Kitchenplaner 0.1.0

The first release: plan commercial kitchens in a floor plan, four elevations and 3D, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Everything runs on your computer; a project is a single .kplan file.

Improved

• „Grundriss“: the room and every unit to scale in millimetres, with dimensions, a grid and snapping; units snap with their back to walls and partitions and line up with their neighbours, guide lines show where.
• Four elevations („Ansicht Nord“, „Ost“, „Süd“, „West“), dimensioned and derived from the plan. „Schnitttiefe der Ansicht“ sets how far they reach into the room: only the wall, „Halber Raum“ or „Ganzer Raum“ (for every elevation and the exports).
• 3D view of the whole kitchen: perspective or „Parallelprojektion“, „Von oben“ and „Von vorne“, a view cube, „Wände ausblenden“ for the walls towards the camera, a „Höhenschnitt“, and „Begehen“ to walk through the kitchen at eye level (W A S D or arrow keys).
• A catalog of 165 units in eight areas (cooking, cooling, washing, tables and preparation, serving, storage, ventilation, building elements such as columns, shafts, floor drains and channels), each with a 3D preview and its connection values; many come in several standard widths and as electric or gas units.
• Editing in two modes, switched with Tab: „Einrichten“ arranges units, „Raum“ edits corners, walls, partitions and openings. G moves, R rotates, X and Y lock an axis, a typed number gives the exact distance or angle, Enter or a click confirms, Esc or a right click cancels; Shift+D duplicates, A selects all, and a selection frame dragged to the right takes units fully inside, dragged to the left every unit it touches.
• „Umriss zeichnen“ draws the room wall by wall: click or type each length, it snaps to 90° and 45° and to corners, and a click on the start point closes the room.
• „Trennwand“ draws walls inside the room; doors, windows and pass-through hatches („Durchreiche“) sit in walls and partitions.
• „Prüfung“ points out units that overlap, stand outside the room, block a door, are higher than the room or stand in a partition.
• „Geräteliste“: every position with its size and connection values (electric kW and voltage, gas, cold and hot water, drain, exhaust air) and the totals.
• Exports: the plan as SVG, DXF and PNG, each elevation as SVG and DXF, all elevations as one SVG, the 3D view as PNG and the equipment list as CSV for Excel.
• Projects are saved as .kplan files; double-clicking one opens it in Kitchenplaner. Undo and redo for every change, and a question before unsaved changes are lost.
• An example kitchen to try everything: the restaurant kitchen „Restaurant Lindenhof“ with 65 positions, attached to this release as Beispielkueche-Restaurant.kplan (German) and Example-Kitchen-Restaurant.kplan (English).
• German and English, light and dark design, each following the system or chosen in the app.

Fixed

• Nothing yet: this is the first release.

Checklist for Windows (manual)

• Download Kitchenplaner_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe from the release and start it: SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher; „Weitere Informationen“ → „Trotzdem ausführen“ starts the installer. It installs without asking for admin rights, and Kitchenplaner appears in the Start menu.
• Start Kitchenplaner from the Start menu: the window opens with an empty project, no error message.
• Download Beispielkueche-Restaurant.kplan from the release, open it with „Öffnen…“ (Ctrl+O): the plan shows 65 positions; „Alle Ansichten“ (key 4) shows plan, 3D and elevations, and „Prüfung“ finds no problems.
• Double-click the downloaded .kplan file in Explorer: Kitchenplaner opens it.
• In 3D, „Begehen“: walk with W A S D through the kitchen, Esc ends it.
• Drag a unit from the catalog into the plan, then press G, X, type 1000 and press Enter: it moves exactly 1 m along the X axis; Ctrl+Z puts it back.
• Tab to „Raum“, draw a „Trennwand“ and add a „Durchreiche“ to it; save with Ctrl+S, close and open the file again: both are there.
• Export the plan as SVG, DXF and PNG, the elevations as SVG, the 3D view as PNG and the equipment list as CSV: every file opens (browser, a CAD viewer, Excel with umlauts shown correctly).
• Switch to English and to the light design in the app: every text and the 3D view follow.
• Close the window with unsaved changes: the question appears; cancel keeps the window open.
• Uninstall in Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Kitchenplaner: it is removed from the Start menu and the installation folder.