Projects & drawings

How projects, drawings and scans are organised on disk, the three tabs, the project workspace, and moving work around.

Kaleidoscope Plan organises your work into projects. A project is the unit of work — it owns its drawings and scans in a single folder, so renaming, sharing or deleting a job is one operation.

The hierarchy

• Project — the container for a job. Carries the filing an architect or surveyor needs: name, client, job number and notes.
• Drawing (.kalar) — what you edit: a building with floors and rooms, walls, openings, fittings, lights and heating. A project can hold many (one per building, per floor, or per design iteration).
• Scan (.kalascan) — a LiDAR capture you can convert into a drawing.
• Engine — a non-destructive overlay (fire, 3D, security, WiFi, network, marketing) attached to a drawing.

On disk, everything for a project lives inside that project’s folder — there’s no global pool. A separate Unfiled area holds anything you haven’t assigned to a project yet (and anything you import from Files).

The three tabs

1. Projects — the home tab. Lists every project; tap one to open its workspace. Unfiled is the last row.
2. Library — a flat, read-only view of every drawing and scan across all projects, with All / Drawings / Scans filter chips. For “I just want to find that file.”
3. Settings — units, styles, region and preferences (see Settings).

The project workspace

Opening a project shows:

• A filing form — name, client, job number and notes, edited inline (changes commit as you leave each field; there’s no Save button).
• A Drawings section — every drawing in the project, with + New drawing and + Add from Files.
• A Scans section — every scan, with + New scan (LiDAR; disabled on devices without a LiDAR sensor).

New drawings and scans land inside this project automatically.

Moving, importing and deleting

• Move between projects — swipe a drawing or scan row and choose Move to project…. It’s an atomic file move.
• Import a .kalar from Files — into a project (it joins that project) or into Unfiled. An imported file’s previous project association is cleared, since the destination device doesn’t have the source project.
• Delete a project — removes the project’s folder and everything in it (with a confirmation that shows the item counts). To keep some items, move them to Unfiled first.

File formats at a glance

Full details in File formats.

Next

• Canvas & navigation
• Scanning with LiDAR