PlanogramBuilder - User Guide

Version 49 - January 2025

Attention: all users must update PlanogramBuilder before February 24, 2025.

You can install the PlanogramBuilder update as a standard Windows user if allowed by company policy, but you may need IT assistance if a message pops up.
If you can't complete the update yourself, make sure to ask your IT to install the update before the above date.
Instructions and download link: Install PlanogramBuilder

A series of varied premade shelving furniture is available as an alternative to building shelving with Create bays or Create a new bay with New bay components. This includes for example counters, tables and cold chests (Predefined examples (Template catalog)).
Bays can be resized a lot more efficiently, preserving some component dimensions while scaling others. This allows creating variations of bays very quickly, for example starting from the new premade shelving furniture (Resize (Edit bays) and Resizable with bay (Selected bay components)).
You can place products on shelves with much more freedom thanks to new types of shelves: Table top and Refrigerated chest (Shelf type).
New bays can be created directly by dragging a new component to an empty area in the visualization area (Create a new bay with New bay components).
A new type of bay component has been added, ideal for posts, feet, etc. (Generic (New bay components).
Pigeon hole displays can optionally be split (Intersections of dividing panels / shelves).
Rear margins can be defined for shelves (Back margin (Selected shelves)).

Room elements can be resized with more control, preserving some element dimensions while scaling others (Resize (Edit room elements) and Resizable with room (Selected room elements)).

When using any edit tool, double-click on an object to switch to its corresponding task and show its properties (Edit room elements, Edit bays, Edit bay components, Edit products and accessories).
Bays, Room elements, bay components and products can now be moved in more directions with the mouse. The translation plane is based on the viewing angle and you can also constrain displacement to a single axis (Move (Edit room elements), Move (Edit bays), Move (Edit bay components), Move (Edit products and accessories)).

Schematic view mode is now supported by accessories and testers (Schematic view (View)).
Schematic labels are automatically oriented and positioned based on the viewing angle (Schematic view (Settings)). This enables seeing the labels from a top view for example.
The direction of the text on labels is automatically adjusted (vertical / horizontal) based on the item proportions to allow more text to fit on the label.

Grouping and highlighting of items can be toggled with a single click (Group (toggle) and Highlight (toggle)).
Choosing the criteria for grouping and highlighting items is now achieved more conveniently (Group by… and Highlight by…).
The maximum dimensions of published images have been increased (Picture size, Resolution (Reports)).
The title of each report now include the date, project name and the number of bays (Reports).

It is now possible to precisely specify the viewpoints with Camera parameters (Camera parameters).
Camera presets can be saved and retrieved (Presets (Camera parameters)).
New click functions are available for navigation tools: Zoom, Orbit, Pan, Walk.
Eye level for the Walk tool can be specified (Eye level for Walk).

Projects now have their own classification scheme, allowing to differentiate it from product classification (Project classification properties (Settings)).
Project classification values are displayed in the list of projects with the ability to filter the list per classification values (List of projects).
The details of each project in the list have bigger thumbnails (Project thumbnail).

The application and the user guide are now available in Italian (Language).
The examples provided with the software are now shown in separate sections of each catalog, letting you switch and distinguish them from your own data. This applies to Material catalog, Template catalog, Catalog of products and Catalog of accessories.
Tooltips for tools indicate mouse and keyboard usage when applicable (Toolbar buttons).
Users can now reset their password if a wrong password was entered (Wrong Password).