Exporting & sharing

Save and open drawings, import rooms, export engine PDFs/PNGs/CSVs, and share scans and whole projects.

Kaleidoscope Plan saves and shares through the standard iOS/macOS share sheet, so your work goes wherever you need it.

Saving and opening a drawing

From Menu (Pan & Zoom, nothing selected):

• Save — encodes the current drawing to a readable, pretty-printed .kalar file and presents the share sheet. Saved drawings round-trip losslessly — placed items, wall layer stacks, drawing properties and wall links all survive.
• Open — pick a .kalar file to load. This replaces the current drawing.

Importing rooms from another drawing

• Import — pick a .kalar, then choose which rooms to bring in from a list (each shows “N walls · M doors · …”). The selected rooms are appended to your current drawing with fresh ids and a name suffix on any collision — your existing work is not replaced. Shared-wall connections from the source are dropped (you can re-connect with the snap-and-connect flow).

Engine exports

Each engine produces its own deliverable:

See each engine guide for what its export contains.

Page sizes and regions

PDF exports follow the active region — US Letter in the US, A4 elsewhere — in the orientation each engine needs (mostly landscape). Set the region in Settings.

Sharing scans and whole projects

• A scan can be shared as a single self-contained .kalascan file.
• A whole project — every drawing and scan it contains — can be shared as one .kaliarchive file, ideal for backup or handing a job to a colleague.

Everything goes through the share sheet: AirDrop, Mail, Messages, Files or iCloud Drive. iOS routes .kalar, .kalarelement, .kalascan and .kaliarchive files straight back into the app via Open With.

Title blocks

Fill in your drawing properties so exported PDFs carry a proper title block — drawing number, client, date and revision.

Next

• File formats
• Engines overview