Documentation
Everything you need to go from an empty canvas to a finished, exported plan, including a how-to for every one of the eight engines.
Getting started
Getting started
Install Kaleidoscope Plan, find your way around the editor, and draw your first room.
Projects & drawings
How projects organise drawings, scans, surveys and engines, the three tabs, the project workspace, and moving and sharing work.
Canvas & navigation
Pan, zoom, the grid, background references, the draw order, rendering styles, and how to find your way around the plan.
Drawing
Editing & selection
The tools, how selection and manipulation work, the edit panels and action palettes, undo/redo, handedness and help mode.
Rooms & walls
Create and arrange rooms with the Room tool, step into wall editing for the full reshaping toolset - Line, Knife, Extrude and friends - and keep rooms valid.
Wall materials & layers
Build walls from layered material stacks, the catalogue, presets, the layer editor, and the rules.
Doors, windows & openings
Place and edit doors, windows and plain wall openings, every style, default size, hinge and swing option, and how openings cut the wall.
Fixtures & furniture
Place fittings and furniture, transform them precisely with handles and pills, snap to grid, and reuse your own elements.
Lights & heating
Place lighting and radiators, set every property, link them to walls, and use the full type catalogues.
Custom elements
Author and import your own fixture and furniture symbols as .kalarelement files, including with the built-in online element editor.
Working with plans
Coordinate system & units
How Kaleidoscope Plan stores geometry, metres, the x/z floor plane, precision, and unit display.
Measurements & properties
Read wall lengths, areas and room labels; set units and precision; and record the drawing properties saved with every plan.
Multi-room & floors
Model whole buildings, switch rooms, move them, connect and disconnect shared walls, and check every connection at a glance.
Layers & styles
Toggle what's drawn, switch canvas and wall styles, and understand the dark-mode policy.
Drawing health
Find and fix geometry problems before you export - the checks, the on-canvas cues, and the Drawing health panel with its one-tap repairs.
Capture & export
Scanning with LiDAR
Capture a real room with Apple RoomPlan, then convert or merge it into an editable drawing.
Exporting & sharing
Save and share drawings, export scaled PDF, PNG, JPEG and DXF, import rooms, export engine PDFs, CSVs and 3D snapshots, and share scans, presets and whole projects.
Surveys
Record versioned property inspections, numbered markers with photos, categories and severity, then export a PDF report.
Engines
Engines overview
What engines are, how to add one, the shared tools they all use, and how they export.
Fire Escape Plan
Lay escape routes, exits, extinguishers and signage, then export an advisory, standards-aligned per-floor PDF.
3D
Generate a navigable 3-D model from your plan, then light, texture and furnish it.
Fire Alarm Zone
Paint detection zones, wire BS EN 54 devices onto loops, place panel markers, and export a per-marker zone plan.
CCTV & Security
Place the full security stack, tune ray-traced coverage cones, link devices to the building, and export a print-ready security plan.
WiFi Coverage
Place access points and mesh, model multi-wall RF coverage/interference/throughput, plan channels and export per band.
Marketing
Build a property brochure from six templates with a drag-to-arrange layout editor, branding with a Brand Kit, photos with crop, Pencil annotations, and a WYSIWYG PDF.
Network & IT
Place 50 IT device types, capture the full patch/port mapping, run integrity checks, and export a plan page plus six reports and CSV.
Deck Plan
Colour a vessel deck by grade and place IMO safety signage, then export a combined fire-control and safety plan PDF.
Reference
Keyboard shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut on Mac and iPad-with-keyboard - tools, zoom, editing, the selection commands, the single-key wall and room actions, and where to find the list in the app.
Settings
Every app setting, canvas and wall style, room labels, units and precision, grid sizes, handedness, and region.
File formats
Every Kaleidoscope Plan file type, what it stores, its UTI and MIME type, and how the formats stay stable.
FAQ
Common questions about platforms, privacy, scanning, engines and exporting.