Welcome to The KCL CADalog, an application that helps you incorporate foodservice equipment symbols in your AutoCAD floor plans, elevations, 3D and detail drawings. This guide gets you started with the most useful features of The KCL CADalog and familiarizes you with major concepts. You need not read this from start to finish. Open the Navigation Pane to use bookmarks to jump to the section of most interest.

What is The KCL CADalog?
The KCL CADalog is a collection of foodservice equipment symbols and utilities that empower kitchen facility designers to create and modifyAutoCAD drawings. With more than 65,000 drawings and a suite of AutoCAD-specific utilities, The KCL CADalog is an indispensable tool for technically superior kitchen facility designers.

Glossary of KCL Terms
Add—to copy an item from The KCL CADalog symbol library into a group
Balloon—an item tag or bubble containing attributes and other information
Cutsheet— a manufacturer’s specification sheet
Drawing—an AutoCAD file that contains symbols
Drop-Down Menu—a menu that appears when you click the right mouse button
Group—a user-chosen collection of items
Icon—a graphical button representing the function it performs when clicked
Insert—to copy an item from The KCL CADalog into an AutoCAD drawing file
Item—a symbol from The KCL CADalog symbol library
Library—a collection of a manufacturer’s symbols in The KCL CADalog
Load (group)—to open a previously saved group
Model—a version of a foodservice equipment product
Product—a machine, device, or object built by the manufacturer
Pull-Down Menu—a menu that appears when clicking the left mouse button on a menu or a down arrow
Row—a horizontal set of cells in a spreadsheet that shows item information
Schedule—a chart that lists items in a group according to user-chosen attributes
Submenu—The list of auxiliary functions to a choice in a pull- or drop-down menu
Spreadsheet—a series of one or more rows of data divided into discrete columns
Symbol—a graphic replica of foodservice equipment, usually tied in with other info.
View—a representation of a symbol seen from a specific vantage (e.g., top, side, etc.)

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