The Crime Zone

Basic Feature List - Crime Scene Drawings

The Crime Zone and The Crash Zone were the world's first drawing programs developed just for law enforcement professionals and private investigators. They are easy to learn and use because the features were created only for you - not for engineers or surveyors! For nearly 20 years, we have packed the program full of powerful, yet easy-to-use features so you can draw crime and crash scenes easier and faster than ever. No other law enforcement drawing software program is more fully-featured or more accurate!

"Very effective! The Crime Zone has been instrumental in successfully
reconstructing major crime scenes for DA's and juries.
Thanks for a job well done!" 
Special Agent Hans Miller, NC State Bureau of Investigation 

Powerful Drawing and Editing Features -Use your measurements to draw lines, arcs, circles, curves, and more. You can quickly draw buildings, streets, parking lots, evidence, and anything else in your scene. You can even create accurate 3D curves and arcs!

Thousands of Pre-drawn Symbols of almost everything you will find at a crime or crash scene, including weapons, clothing, bodies, furniture, vehicles, signs, trees, shrubs, street lights, evidence like broken glass, and animals. The powerful Symbol Manager Toolbox makes it easy to find and place symbols in your diagram at any size and any rotation. 

FREE Technical Suport and Training materials - It's easy to teach yourself how to use the program. Take advantage of our FREE telephone and email technical support. Follow the tutorials and instructions in the FREE printed User's Manual. Watch the FREE training movies for step-by-step instructions!

Import Images - Bring in satellite photos, aerial photos and photos from digital cameras. Place them anywhere in your diagrams to show terrain, body positions, and evidence. Draw and place labels on top of the image.

An aerial photograph of a scene can be included on any Crime Zone diagram. Lines, arcs, symbols, text and dimensions can all be drawn on top of the photograph.

50+ Hatch Patterns -Cover areas with a pattern or solid color. Show grass, concrete, water, blood, etc. Use hatches to show blood spatter on walls, water, grass, fluid spills, and more.

100+ Automatic Line Types -Apply "line types" to any line, arc, or curve to draw them as railroad tracks, fences, skid marks, lane lines, footprints, guard rails, and more. Line types convert to 3D automatically. 

Unlimited Undo/Redo!Quickly fix mistakes! Go back and forth as many steps as you want.

Automatic Save and Incremental Back-up Files -Don't lose your work to a computer glitch!

Easy Streets Toolbox -Turn any line, arc, or curve into a multi-lane street. Just point and click to change lane widths and centerline types. Automatically calculates increasing or decreasing radius of simple and complex curves!

Easy Lines Toolbox for point and click measurement entry. Fast and accurate, even for entering baseline and triangulation measurements and for drawing a vector line. Lets you quickly create your crime scene drawing to exactly match your manual measurements.

Easy Templates -Predrawn templates of streets and intersections. Just drop them into place and add your vehicles. Create and save your own templates of intersections in your area.

Easy Builder -Quickly draw building outlines, just select a shape and type in the measurements or simply drag the walls to the desired size. You can also choose to automatically display dimensions.

Amazing Body Poser!Now it's easy to show a body exaxtly how it was found at the scene in all your 2D AND in 3D diagrams! First, select the gender, height, and a basic pose, such as running or sitting. Then, drag each joint and limb to the desired position, change skin color and clothes color. Check the position in the 3D preview window before you place it in the diagram. You can even save poses to use them again later.

Powerful Import features -Save and load drawings in .dxf and AutoCAD® .dwg file formats. Bring in diagrams of intersections or buildings from your city or county!

Image Editing Tools - Automatically scale photographs and images to real-world size with the Two-Point Scale feature. Easily rotate images, fade them, put them on separate layers for tracing, and more. These tools are ideal for incorporating aerial and satellite images into your crime scene drawings!

Add Diagrams To Your Reports -Export your crime scene drawings to a .jpg or .pdf file. These file formats can easily be shared with other and put into reports!

One Click 3D!Automatically convert your 2D diagrams to 3D models - complete with 3D symbols, line types, text and dimensions! View the scene from any angle, show 3D surfaces, align symbols to a surface, like a ramp or hill, pose 3D bodies, show bullet trajectories, show evidence on walls and vertical surfaces, and more! Click here to learn more!

Animate Your Diagram – The new Animation tools make it easy to show the 2D or 3D motion of any symbols in your diagrams. Just draw the path of the symbols that you want to put in motion (vehicles, people, bullets, even cows), based on the measurements you took at the scene. Place Key Event Points to show where changes in velocity and rotation occur, then watch the movie. It’s the easiest way to create accurate animations of your scenes for courtroom presentations! Click here to learn more!

Flexible Symbol Placement - A powerful Symbol Manager Toolbox makes it easy to find and place symbols in your diagrams. Each symbol has handle points that let you change its size, rotation, and color all in one step! Includes thousands of symbols for crash, crime, and marine scenes. Create your own symbols and add them to the symbol library automatically. 

Import from Lasers and Total Stations - Ideal for crime scene mapping! Shoot your points, lines, arcs, and curves and bring them into your drawing to create completely accurate, 2D and 3D drawings. Compatible with Laser Technology, Topcon, Nikon, Sokkia, Leica, and more!

Compatible with Pocket Zone, Pocket PC Data Collection Software - Use Pocket Zone to control your total station or record manual measure- ments, then bring in that 3D data to create the finished scene. Pocket Zone is ideal for forensic mapping because it let's you preview your drawing at the scene. When you leave, you'll know you have collected all the measurements you need! Click to learn more!

Unlimited Zooms - Zoom in as far as you want and never lose resolution. Your lines stay crisp, they never look fuzzy!

Text & Quick Labels - Choose any font, color and text size. Type what you want, or select from predrawn labels. You can even add your own labels to the pick list.

One Click Dimensions - Put dimensions into place with a single mouse click. Let the program calculate the distance, or type any measurement.

Coordinate Data Table – Use this tool to import numerous ASCII file formats such as GPS data and coordinate data with automated line work from a total station. You can also input manual measurements in a spread sheet format using baseline or triangulation methods. You preview the resulting points, lines, arcs and curves before placing them in your diagram. All of your measurement data can be exported to a text file (.txt) or to an Excel® spreadsheet.

255 Drawing Layers - Organize your drawings with layers! Apply names to layers and lock layers so they can't be edited. You can turn the display of individual layers on or off so you can display the scene differently, such as before and after the crime took place. 

Flexible Printing Options - Print to scale, fit to paper, or tile onto multiple pieces of paper to make a poster-size drawing. Also supports printing to any size on large-format plotters. 

"Night Vision Mode" - You can choose to display you diagrams on a black background to eliminate temporary blindness at night from looking at a bright screen.

Training is Available at The CAD Zone's training center and through many colleges and academies, including IPTM and U of C - Riverside. Training is also provided by a large network of individual trainers throughout the US and Canada. Check our Training Web Site for more information. Live Online training is available over the web.

Officer Bobby Jones, Knox County (TN) says: 
"We used The Crime Zone to create diagrams for a homicide
investigation. The diagrams were so definitive, illustrating all the
evidence, that the defendant pled guilty without contest!" 

              Crash Zone Features (Included!)         

The Crime Zone also includes all the features you need to draw accurate, detailed, crash scene diagrams. There is no need to buy more than one program and there are no expensive add-on modules. The Crime Zone lets you do it all! So what's the difference between The Crime Zone and The Crash Zone? Nothing! Click here to learn more!

Powerful Crash Calculation Tools -Crash Reconstructionists will love pulling measurements right off their diagrams to perform the standard calculations, including multi-surface skid analysis, approach and departure angles, momentum calculator, crush analysis, and more! Click here to learn more!

Vehicle Specifications Database -Obtain vehicle specifications and a to-scale outline for most vehicles by selecting them from an industry-standard database. The outline is drawn to exact specifications for length, width, center of mass, wheelbase, front and rear overhang so you can stretch any of the detailed, 3D vehicle symbols to have the same size. Free database updates!(Specifications are based on the Canadian Vehicle Specifications as published posted by the Canadian Assoc. of Road Safety Professionals, CARSP.)

Fastest Intersections -The Easy Intersection Toolbox lets you create complex intersections with just a few mouse clicks. Select from 10 basic intersection shapes, then add up to 20 lanes in each street! Change lane widths and centerline types too. Just click to add turn bays, medians, bus turnouts, crosswalks, by-passes, street names, and more.

And All the Other Crash Zone Features - Click here to learn more!

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