Q. Does The Crime Zone have any crash diagram symbols or do I have to purchase The Crash Zone program to get them?

A. No, The Crime Zone contains all of the accident reconstruction features that you would find in The Crash Zone diagram program. To switch to the Crash symbol set just open the Symbol Manager from the left-hand toolbox. Click the "Symbols Group" drop-down arrow at the top of the symbol manager and choose "Crash Symbols" from the drop-down menu. The crash symbol categories will now be displayed in the Symbol Manager.

You can also find many of the accident reconstruction line styles on the Line Types bin on the left hand menu. The Crime Zone also contains hatch patterns and line styles for creating fire investigation diagrams!

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Q. Can I import my crime scene photos into my diagrams?

A. Yes! Use the Import Images command found on the File pull-down menu. It will allow you to import digital images in .BMP, .JPG, or .WMF formats.

To import an image:

Choose the Import Images command from the File pull-down menu.
Click (or snap) to place two diagonal points in the diagram where you want to place the image.
A dialog box appears that allows you to select the desired image file. Using standard Windows methods, select the proper drive and folder, and then select the desired image file.
The image is inserted into the diagram at the location specified earlier.

Once the image is loaded it can be printed out along with the rest of the diagram or you can trace over the top of it using the various drawing commands in the program.

Refer to the "Experts Corner" documents located in your Learning Center (found on the Help menu) for additional documents dealing with digital and scanned images.

A) There is not a symbol, but there is a blood hatch pattern, which is better. The blood hatch can be found on the Hatch menu and can be used to draw any pattern of blood or blood spatter. It is much more flexible than a symbol would be because it will let you draw your blood patterns in a more accurate manner than you could get with just a symbol.

A. In the Crime Zone version 8, when you pose a 2D body symbol it appears correctly posed in the 3D viewer. Also check out the bodies symbol group for several new pre-drawn 3D body symbols. There are 3D body symbols for kneeling, running, attacking and more.

A. All you need to do is click on the color palette icon on the symbol manager. Select the desired color from the menu, and when the symbol is placed it is now in the color that you selected. Remember that any symbol that you place will remain in the color that you selected until you select a different color or until you deselect the color palette icon, setting the symbols back to their default placement color. When viewed in 3D the symbols will appear in the same color they were placed in on the 2D view.

A. Yes! First you will need to use the Point command and place points on the screen representing the bullet trajectory points. Place the points or markers at exact distances and angles using the Easy Lines feature.

Select one of the Points and open the 3D Builder tool from the Speedbar. Assign a height to the Point. Use this process to assign height to the other two points.

Choose one of the Trajectory line styles from the Line types menu and use any of the Draw commands to snap a line, curve, arc, etc, to the points. The draw commands will follow the 3D value of the points and take on the X, Y, and Z values.

View the diagram in the 3D viewer to see the line follow the path of the points and their 3D elevations.

A. Yes! The new version 8.0 of the diagram program allows you to easily create elevation views of your 2D walls and add blood spatter, bullet holes, text, dimensions, and any other kind of evidence that you need to show on a vertical surface.

A. The drawings can be exported in several different ways. In a CAD based environment they can be exported to AutoCAD DWG, and DXF format (as well as many other CAD formats). In a "picture" or "Word Document" environment they can be exported as JPEG, Bitmap (BMP), and Windows Metafile (WMF). If you have the complete Adobe Acrobat suite (not just the reader) you can save the diagrams out as PDF documents.

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