Getting Started
By creating your crime scenes using a program like SmartDraw:
- You'll get more reliable, more professional results quicker instead of doing sketches and illustrations by hand
- You'll save money and be in total control of your project instead of paying an outside firm to do your designs
- You'll communicate your message more clearly and efficiently to investigators, law enforcement professionals, attorneys, judges, and most importantly juries
Getting Started: Using a SmartTemplate
SmartDraw provides you with hundreds of SmartTemplates that help you get started no matter what your diagram need.
To create a crime scene diagram, you can start with a Blank Crime Scene SmartTemplate, a Crime Scene Area SmartTemplate, or modify one of the examples, simply by clicking on a preview in the Preview Area.
Crime Scene Area SmartTemplates
These templates are pre-configured for crime scenes with the appropriate SmartPanel already chosen for you.
Almost all crime scenes start out as some sort of a floor plan of a residential home or an office.
Garage Area SmartTemplate
Occassionally, you may also need to use an outdoor scene such as a park or street.
Luckily, SmartDraw provides you with plenty of examples of both.
And since many crime scenes are truly unique to a case, you can easily create your own custom floor plan using the drawing tools provided in SmartDraw.
The SmartPanel
The SmartPanel is located to the far left of your work area. Here you will be able to Add Shapes using the symbols in the Library Gallery.
When you start off using a SmartTemplate for your diagram, the appropriate symbol library loads with the template.
Build a Crime Scene SmartPanel