Kitchenplaner v0.2.0

Kitchenplaner 0.2.0

Plans that hold up in front of professionals: a PDF plan set to scale, stable position numbers, products and prices, real doors, automatic backups, and an app that keeps itself up to date.

Improved

• „Plansatz als PDF…“ (menu „Exportieren“): floor plan, the four elevations, the equipment list and the 3D view as one PDF, on A4 to A0, landscape or portrait, at a fixed scale (1:20 to 1:200) or the most detailed one that fits. Each sheet has a frame and a title block with project, client, drawing number, revision, date, sheet „n von m“ and scale. The dialog says before the export when a drawing does not fit the sheet and offers a scale or paper size that does. „Bezeichnungen im Grundriss“ prints the names next to the position numbers.
• Position numbers stay with their unit: deleting or moving a unit no longer renumbers the others. „Positionen neu nummerieren“ (project panel, nothing selected) numbers all units from 1, clockwise around the room starting at the top left, when you want a fresh order.
• Products and prices: manufacturer, type, article number and net price for each unit in the inspector, in the equipment list, the CSV and the PDF, with the total price.
• „Gleichzeitigkeitsfaktor“ in the project panel: the electric and gas totals are shown as the plain sum and with the factor, in the project panel, the status bar and the CSV. Connection values are marked as typical values to check against the manufacturer's data, in the inspector, the CSV and the PDF title block.
• Doors: hinge side („DIN links“, „DIN rechts“), opening into or out of the room (or to either side of a partition), one or two leaves, and the new „Schiebetür“ with the side it runs on and the way it opens. H changes the hinge side and Shift+H the opening direction of the selected door, also in the right-click menu. Plan, elevations, 3D and „Prüfung“ follow: the area that has to stay free lies where the door actually opens.
• Automatic backups: while a project has unsaved changes, Kitchenplaner keeps a backup a few seconds after the last change; the status bar shows „Automatisch gesichert …“. If Kitchenplaner ends unexpectedly (a crash, a power cut), the next start offers „Wiederherstellen“: the project comes back with all changes, still unsaved.
• „Messen“ (key M): click two points in the floor plan for the distance and its X and Y parts; Shift snaps to 45° steps.
• „Ausrichten und verteilen“ for two or more selected units: align left, right, top, bottom or centred, distribute three or more evenly, or line them up without gaps; in the inspector and the right-click menu.
• Right-click menu in the floor plan with the commands for what is under the cursor (units, walls, corners, doors) and their keys.
• A short introduction on the first start: six steps from placing units to exporting, with the keys as your computer labels them, and „Beispielküche öffnen“. „Einführung…“ in the menu „Darstellung“ shows it again.
• Kitchenplaner updates itself: it looks for a new version at start and every few hours and shows a quiet notice with „Jetzt aktualisieren“ and „Später“; unsaved changes are saved first. „Automatisch nach Updates suchen“ and „Jetzt nach Updates suchen“ are in the menu „Darstellung“.
• Drawing number and revision of the project, shown in the title block of the SVG and PDF sheets.
• Equipment models reworked in every area: hoods with folded fronts and collars, round induction zones, kettles sized by volume, gas units with their flue outlets in plan, elevation and 3D, wire shelves and baskets as real rods, brushed steel and chrome without bands, freezers marked with a frost strip.
• A website with downloads and install help for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Fixed

• Names in the floor plan („Bezeichnungen im Grundriss“) no longer run into each other or over the position numbers: each name sits inside or next to its unit, is shortened to the unit's width, and is left out where there is no room for it.
• Overhead units (hoods, wall shelves) are drawn solid in the elevations, dashed only in the floor plan.
• Floor drains and drain channels lie flush with the floor; bains-marie and hot food wells hold water.
• The catalog previews show the units with their real-size steel surface.

Checklist for Windows (manual)

• Download Kitchenplaner_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe from the release and install it over 0.1.0 (SmartScreen: „Weitere Informationen“ → „Trotzdem ausführen“): Kitchenplaner starts as 0.2.0 and the introduction opens once; „Überspringen“ closes it, the next start does not show it.
• Open Beispielkueche-Restaurant.kplan from the release: the plan shows 65 positions; delete position 12: the numbers of the others stay; „Positionen neu nummerieren“ in the project panel closes the gap.
• Select a unit, enter manufacturer, type, article number and price; set the „Gleichzeitigkeitsfaktor“ to 0.7: the status bar and the project panel show the kW with the factor; export the list as CSV: Excel shows the new columns and the totals with umlauts.
• „Plansatz als PDF…“ on A3, automatic scale, with „Bezeichnungen im Grundriss“: the PDF opens in Edge and Acrobat, the sheet count matches the dialog, the plan measures true at the scale in its title block (1:75 on A3) when printed at 100 %, and no name overlaps another or a number.
• In „Raum“, select a door: switch „Anschlag“, „Öffnet“ and two leaves in the inspector, then H and Shift+H; change it to a „Schiebetür“: plan, elevation and 3D follow; „Prüfung“ reports a unit placed in the door's swing.
• Make a change, wait until the status bar shows „Automatisch gesichert“, end Kitchenplaner in the Task Manager („Task beenden“), start it again: „Wiederherstellen“ brings the change back and the title shows the project as unsaved.
• Press M and measure a wall in the plan: the length matches its dimension. Select three units, right-click: align and distribute them.
• „Darstellung“ → „Jetzt nach Updates suchen“: „Kitchenplaner ist auf dem neuesten Stand.“
• After the next release: the notice „Version … ist verfügbar“ appears; „Jetzt aktualisieren“ with unsaved changes saves first, installs and restarts into the new version.
• Uninstall in Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Kitchenplaner: it is removed from the Start menu and the installation folder.