KitchenDraw 5.0

KitchenDraw 5.0
Size: 11.12 MB

It's now possible to move around in real time in a KitchenDraw scene thanks to the Walkthrough facility. You enter the Walkthrough view mode running the "View Walkthrough" command. You can control the position and the orientation of the observer in the scene with the direction key pad (arrows) and the "Page up" and "Page down" keys.

The "Top arrow" key allows the observer to go forward and the "Bottom arrow" key allows to go backward.

The "Left arrow" key rotates the observer toward the left while the "Right arrow" key rotates the observer toward the right.
The "Page up" key rotates the observer upward and the "Page down" key rotates the observer downward. If the Ctrl key is pressed, the rotations functions turn to move functions.

The Walkthrough facility is based upon OpenGL and takes benefit from the 3D hardware acceleration provided by modern graphic cards.


Improved dimensions
A dynamic and automatic dimensioning facility like the one already existing in KD4.5 for elevation views has been developed for plan views.

In addition to increase the ease of use, this new feature allows to produce better looking floor plans.

Furthermore, it's now possible to place angular dimensions as well as radius dimensions. This is particularly useful to establish special worktops plans to the manufacturers.

Zoom and pan of the current view
It's now possible to zoom in or to zoom out using the mouse wheel.
The "interest point " of the zoom is the position of the mouse cursor.
Rolling the wheel toward yourself carries out a zoom in operation and reciprocally.
The function is available in all view modes except the Walkthrough mode.

In KD5.0, it's also possible to move (pan) the current view for example to centre it. To do that, just press the mouse wheel (or the mouse centre button), move the mouse till the view is located where you want, and finally release the wheel (or the mouse centre button).

Size and precision of the scenes
The scenes format has been changed with KitchenDraw version 5. Now, the numerical values are 32 bits long.
Actually that means it's now possible to plan huge scenes with a much better accuracy.
As an example, it would be possible to plan a scene having a 200 kilometres side with a precision of a tenth of a millimetre.

In order to take advantage of this new possibility, new measurement units have been introduced:

:: mm (1 mm) : the dimensions are given in millimetres with a precision of 1 millimetre (without any decimal)
:: mm (1,0 mm) : the dimensions are given in millimetres with a precision of a tenth of a millimetre (one decimal)
:: mm (1,00 mm) : the dimensions are given in millimetres with a precision of a hundredth of a millimetre (two decimals)
:: cm (1,0 cm) : the dimensions are given in centimetres with a precision of 1 millimetre (one decimal)
:: If you use metric measurements, we now advise that you use the mm (1,0 mm) measurement unit.

Circle arcs in shapes
In KitchenDraw 5.0, circles arcs are not transformed into a sequence of linear segments but they keep their circle arc identity.
This is particularly important when it becomes necessary to send technical plans to the manufacturers (special worktops, etc.) because this allows an automatic integration into the production process.

It's possible to export special worktops plans (worktops inside shape) as .DXF files and to join them to the supplier order file sent by email.

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