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Get Started Guide Part 7 - Surveying a Kitchen
SiteMaster® Kitchen Graebert GmbH
Welcome, Thank you for choosing SiteMaster® Kitchen, an innovative surveying tool for kitchen surveying. To help you get started with SiteMaster® Kitchen, we will guide you on the following pages on how to measure a kitchen and create a new layout plan. SiteMaster® kitchen is not only designed to check plans from CARAT but also to measure and create kitchen floor plans. This may be necessary if the kitchen plan deviates too much from the actual layout.
Part 7: Surveying a Kitchen 1. Opening a new a new template To measure a new kitchen floor plan, please open SiteMaster or open a new drawing with NEW under the File Menu. In the file explorer, select the mm template file SmDrawing Metric_mm.dwt and press Open.
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2. Adding Customer Data
When selecting CUSTOMER DATA the following dialog box will appear:
When you the select a field in the Value column you can type in the surveyor and customer information.
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3. Insert Room Height
To start with a new kitchen floor plan, you start with measuring the room height. When you select INSERT ROOM HEIGHT, the following dialog box will appear:
To measure the height you can use a measuring tape and insert the value manually; or measure with a handheld laser and transfer the dimension via Bluetooth to SiteMaster Kitchen. Once you measured the room height, a room height tag will appear with the measured dimension.
Tip: to transfer a dimension from the laser device make sure you are in 2nd mode so you can confirm with transfer with the direction buttons.
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4. Insert Walls The next step is to measure the walls of the kitchen. Select WALLS on the right toolbar and specify a first point with your tablet pen or PC mouse. To create a new kitchen plan measure the walls and room clockwise. Orientation: If you want to measure your first wall you can specify a first starting point either: A) left to right – if you want to measure the wall facing you in front of you B) right to left - if you want to measure the wall behind you facing away Now measure the length of the first wall with the hand-held laser and transfer the wall direction with the corresponding arrow key from the hand-held laser into the drawing. If needed you can also enter dimensions in the input field direction by hand.
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When you measure the first wall, you need to determine where the other side of the wall is. Simply tab with your pen or mouse on the outside of the kitchen or where the L is.
After you choose the outside of the wall, the wall with dimensions will appear on screen.
If the room is not rectangular or does not have 90-degree walls, you need to determine the angle between the first and second wall, before measuring the second wall. To determine an angle you can use two methods: A) If you have an angle meter you can use it to determine the angle and manually type-in the angle and the length in the dedicated boxes and press draw 01/12/14
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B) Another method to determine the angle is to use the TriDraw function – by measuring the wall using to measure a new point on the wall on two existing wall corners. In the TriDraw-modus, you need to select two reference points or stations by pressing Select Station and specify two wall corner points from where you can measure to the new wall point.
Then measure the distance between the new wall point and the 2 stations and press draw. Afterwards you need to specify the diction the wall is going L/R.
When you want to close a room, select Done and choose Close Wall in the next dialog box followed by Direct Distance.
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If you use a touch device, and click inside a field box, a floating auxiliary keyboard will appear that makes it easier to enter values manually.
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5. Insert a Door
When you want to measure doors, select DOOR and specify a wall side from where you would like to measure the door. D1 is the distance from the corner to the door frame.
Afterwards select if you want to include a retainer or not and measure the opening width, height and if needed a threshold. Under the Shape tab you can choose various door shape and types options. However special shapes and types such as, arch doors or foldable doors are not supported by the EGI file transfer to CARAT.
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The Option tab gives you the option to choose if you are measuring to the inside or outside of the door frame, and allows you to add a frame width and thickness. To activate the Detail tab you need to tick the measure details box.
After you measured all dimensions and press OK the door tag will turn from red to green. To insert the door press OK. The door is displayed in the chart as a moving symbol. Now you need to specify the door hinge side of the door and door opening direction, by moving the Tablet pen or mouse around on the screen without lifting. Once you have the door hinge at the desired side lift your pen or press your left mouse button to confirm. Since kitchens are normally single rooms, the next dialog box Room Connection, is set to no and you can just press OK to finish.
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6. Insert a Window
Measuring windows is carried out in the same principle as measuring doors. Select WINDOW, and specify a wall side from where you would like to measure the window. D1 is the distance from the corner to the outside of the window frame.
Next measure the opening width, opening height, sill height and the reveal depth. Under the Shape tab you can choose various window shapes and types. However the EGI file transfer to CARAT does not support special shapes and types, such as round windows.
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The Profile extension, under the Details tab, is automatically calculated by the window bottom edge minus the sill height. So if one of the two dimensions changes the profile extension is automatically adjusted. You can also define the window casement under the Casements tab. Info: currently you can only choose between one and two casements.
If needed you can also add sill details under the Sill tab by ticking the box.
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7. Wall Slot The difference between recesses/chimneys and niches/ducts is that recesses and chimneys extend from floor to ceiling and niches/ducts have both a sill height and an opening height. Select WALL SLOT, and specify a wall side from where you would like to measure the wall slot. D1 is the distance from the corner to the edge of the slot. Now you can choose to measure a niche/duct or a recess/chimney: A) Niche / duct Select Niche/Duct in the dialog box and measure the opening width, depth, opening height and still height.
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B) Recess/Chimney Select Recess/Chimney in the dialog box and measure the opening width and depth. If the depth value is larger than the wall thickness the program inserts automatically a chimney otherwise you can choose if you want to inset a recess or chimney.
Chimney
Recess
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8. Roof Pitch
With SiteMaster Kitchen you have the possibility to measure roof pitches, which can be transferred to CARAT. First you need to measure the offset, d1, from the corner to the roof pitch. The width is the width of the roof pitch and the knee wall is the height from the floor to the beginning of the roof pitch. Measurement distance is the dimension between the knee wall and the end of the roof pitch.
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9. Radiators
With SiteMaster Kitchen you can also measure radiators and transfer them to CARAT.
When you select Radiator you need to specify the wall where you would like to insert a radiator. First measure the offset d1 from the corner to the radiator and press next. Now measure the width, depth, top height, bottom height and distance to the wall. If you want to specify details of the radiator valve active the tab by ticking the box Radiator with valve. With the pull-downs or manual keyboard input you can set the properties of the valve. To close the dialog box press ok and a radiator with a tag is inserted. If there is more than one radiator you can press Next or Finish to finish the command. Is the radiator in a niche, measure first the radiator and then the niche. Is the radiator in a niche, measure the distance from the rear wall and enter this value as a negative number in the input field a distance from the wall. 01/12/14
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10. Obstacles With SiteMaster kitchen you can measure and insert for example: permanently installed gas heaters, wall or pipe cladding, baseboards, ledges, built-in wardrobes, etc. as an obstacle and transfer it to CARAT. You can insert and measure obstacles in both the plan view (A) and later in section wall views after wall have been processed (B). A) Inserting and measuring an obstacle in plan view When you select INSERT OBSTACLE you need to specify the wall where you would like to insert an obstacle. First measure the offset d1 from the corner to the obstacle and press next. Now measure the width, depth, top height, bottom height and distance to the wall.
If you do not want to insert more obstacles at this wall press Finish or Next to continue.
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B) Inserting and measuring an obstacle in the section wall view (after Process walls) Make sure you have the correct wall view in front of you where you want to insert an obstacle (see processing walls) Select INSERT OBSTACLE and select one of the left or right bottom wall corners in the wall view from where you would like to measure the obstacle. Then measure the offset d1 from the corner to the obstacle and press next. Now measure the width, depth, top height, bottom height and distance to the wall. Press Ok and the obstacle will appear with dimensions. In case the obstacle offset d1 is 0, you need to process the walls again to show the obstacle in adjacent walls.
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11. Process Walls Measuring installations, such as, electrical, plumbing or tiles are inserted in the wall displays, which correspond to the single-wall views. By clicking PROCESS WALLS, SiteMaster Kitchen automatically creates wall views with dimensions. Depending on the number of walls, individual wall views are generated, which can be individually opened with the generated buttons. The views are numbered starting with 1 upwards. F represents the floor and C the ceiling.
With the first button ‘zoom to floor plan’ you get back to the original view. Selecting 1, 2, 3, etc. or F & C you see the individual view. Inserting and measuring installations and tiles are being done within the wall views.
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12. Inserting Installation Symbols Measuring installations, such as, electrical, plumbing or tiles are inserted in the wall displays, which correspond to the single-wall views. Make sure you have the correct wall view displaying in which you want to insert an installation. Select INSERT SYMBOL and select one of the left or right bottom wall corners in the wall view from where you would like to measure the symbol. In the dialog box, select one symbol from the symbol library or from the pull-down categories: water, electrical, ventilation or other type of installation that you want to insert. Now measure distance D1 and D2, from the center of the symbol to the wall and to the floor. Afterwards measure the width, height and depth of the installation. You can also choose to insert a tag or not. Press Ok and the symbol will appear with dimensions. Some symbols have default values and if required you can measure and overwrite the dimensions.
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13. Tiles The measurement of tiles is based on the same principle as the measurement of installation symbols. Make sure you have the correct wall view displaying in which you want to insert the tiles. Select INSERT TILES and select one of the left or right bottom wall corners in the wall view from where you would like to measure the symbol.
Now measure distance D1 and D2, from the center of the symbol to the wall and to the floor. Afterwards measure the width, height and depth of the tiles. Press Ok and the tiles will appear with dimensions.
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14. Change floor level You only need to change the floor level if there will be a deviation from the actual measured floor height to the floor height of the planned kitchen. E.g.: you have measured all measurements from an unfinished floor, but know already the proposed finished floor height. In this case you can enter the height difference with this command and adjust all relevant heights in respect to the floor height. Select CHANGE FLOOR Level and enter the difference between the actual measured floor level and the new reference level.
Depending on the kitchen, you can specify a positive value when the new finished floor is above the measured level or a negative value if the new finished floor is below the measured level. Example: The proposed finished floor level is 40 mm higher than the current floor level. So type in the dialog box the difference finished floor level FFL+/of 40. As a result, all height-related height dimensions are adjusted to the new height and actualized in the wall section views. In addition, in all wall views you will see the text, Floor level now -40, i.e. the new floor level is 40mm above the floor level you measured to.
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