FARO^® Zone 3D Software

A comprehensive forensic visualization, analysis, reconstruction and legal presentation platform

FARO Zone 3D is a powerful, intuitive, application-focused software platform designed to help public safety professionals analyze crash and crime scenes with accuracy and ease. It enables users to reconstruct events, analyze evidence, and create courtroom-ready presentations.

With data-agnostic capabilities, FARO Zone 3D integrates data from laser scanners, drones, phones, and other sources. The built-in FotoPoints photogrammetry tool converts drone images and videos into 3D point clouds without the need for third-party software. FARO Zone 3D Expert Plus includes point cloud registration, allowing users to seamlessly align and process data from FARO laser scanners for a complete field-to-finish solution in scene analysis.

When an incident occurs, investigators and forensic experts must use collected data to reconstruct the scene, analyze key evidence, and produce clear visuals to communicate their findings. This process is crucial for ensuring accuracy in crash reconstruction, crime scene analysis, fire investigations, and preparing courtroom presentations. Tools like FARO Zone 3D help public safety professionals achieve these aims.

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Business Value of FARO Zone 3D Software

All in One Solution for Scene Reconstruction

FARO Zone 3D Expert Plus documents, analyzes, and presents crash and crime scenes in a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple software. With advanced 3D point cloud registration that automatically aligns and merges 3D laser scan data, photogrammetry, and courtroom-ready deliverables, it streamlines workflows, saving time and costs.

Validated Solutions for Legal Standards

Independently validated tools, like bullet trajectory and blood spatter analysis, ensure results that meet legal standards for courtroom admissibility. These methods build trust, strengthen cases, and provide confidence to investigators, legal teams, and jurors.

Compatible with All Data Sources

Integrate data from diverse sources such as 3D laser scanners, drones, satellite images, manual measurements, and total stations. This flexibility ensures agencies can use the right tools for every scene while combining multiple datasets into a single, cohesive analysis for optimal results.

Create Compelling, Courtroom-Ready Presentations

Professional 2D and 3D diagrams, animations, 3D fly-throughs, and Zone2Go files make complex findings easy for jurors and legal teams to understand. These clear and compelling visuals enhance credibility, support evidence-based arguments, and play a crucial role in influencing case outcomes.

Comprehensive Tools for Crash and Crime Scene Analysis

Includes advanced tools for crash and crime scene analysis, including speed from crush, momentum calculations, trajectory visualization, and bloodstain pattern analysis. These tools enable investigators to perform precise and thorough reconstructions for complex incidents.

Cost-Effective

By consolidating essential tools into one platform, FARO Zone 3D reduces licensing, training, and agency maintenance costs. This efficiency saves money and increases productivity, allowing teams to focus on critical tasks versus managing multiple software programs.

Ease of Use

A modern, intuitive interface and enhanced Workflow Center make it easy for users to get started quickly. Step-by-step guides, built-in tips, and contextual videos provide on-demand assistance, reducing the learning curve. Free online training is available for those who want to deepen their expertise, ensuring users can work efficiently from day one.

Preparation for Critical Incidents

Creates detailed maps and diagrams of critical areas, such as schools and public spaces, to enhance emergency readiness. These tools enable responders to act quickly and with precision, helping protect the safety of students, staff, and the community.

Future-Proof Technology

Supports emerging measurement tools and workflows, ensuring long-term compatibility and adaptability to latest technologies.

Speed and Accuracy

Automates complex calculations and scene analysis, providing quick, accurate results that save time and ensure precise documentation for both crash and crime scenes.

FARO Zone 3D Performance

The Leading 3D Investigation Software Platform

FARO Zone 3D Expert is the ultimate software for public safety professionals, offering a comprehensive platform to document, visualize, analyze, and present complex scenes with unmatched precision. Its data-agnostic capabilities support seamless integration of laser scans, drone imagery, manual measurements, and more. Equipped with advanced tools for crash and crime scene analysis, as well as built-in photogrammetry capabilities to transform drone data into 3D models, FARO Zone 3D Expert enables users to produce professional, courtroom-ready deliverables, setting an industry standard for scene reconstruction and documentation.

The Complete Field-to-Finish Solution

FARO Zone 3D Expert Plus includes all the powerful features of Expert — advanced crash and crime analysis tools, photogrammetry, and seamless integration of diverse datasets—while introducing advanced point cloud registration tools to align FARO laser scan data directly in the software. It also adds enhanced point cloud visuals and the powerful Crush Zone feature for volumetric crush analysis. This true field-to-finish solution streamlines workflows from capture to courtroom-ready deliverables, providing unmatched efficiency and precision for public safety professionals.

FARO Zone 3D Features

Point Cloud Registration

Includes built-in point cloud registration, which aligns and merges laser scans into a complete 3D scene without needing separate software. It also offers cleanup tools to remove irrelevant data and generates detailed registration reports to verify accuracy. (FARO Zone Expert Plus)

Photogrammetry and Videogrammetry (FotoPoints)

Convert photos and videos from drones, smartphones and cameras to create precise 3D point clouds. This function is performed entirely in-software, eliminating the need for third-party software and cloud-based processing. Merge these point clouds with your FARO Focus laser scanner data to create a comprehensive scene reconstruction.

Create 2D and 3D diagrams

2D and 3D diagrams allow judges and jury to see clear visuals of evidence and case details. 2D diagrams are best for straightforward cases while 3D diagrams provide a more immersive, detailed representation of evidence, allowing viewers to see events from multiple perspectives.

Generate fly through videos

Create dynamic 3D animations for a virtual walkthrough of a scene, such as a crime scene, accident site, or building layout. Help jurors, judges, and attorneys visualize key details more clearly than static images or verbal descriptions alone and keep juries and judges more engaged.

Zone2Go

Lets public safety agencies easily share 3D crime, crash, and fire scenes on a USB drive without special software or an internet connection, helping investigators, attorneys, and juries view scenes for investigations and court cases.

Animations

Visual reconstructions to explain complex events, evidence, or scenarios to a judge and jury. Generate instant time/distance reports from those animations.

Crime Scene Analysis

Perform bullet trajectory analysis, bloodstain pattern analysis/castoff analysis, and create witness viewpoints to visualize perspectives within the scene and generate reports of those findings. Analyze bloodstain patterns from weapons or objects being swung and releasing blood droplets to help determine type of weapon used, number of strikes, and the position of the attacker.

Crash Reconstruction Analysis

FARO Zone offers advanced crash analysis tools, including momentum calculations, skid analysis, crush analysis, critical speed analysis, and EDR-based crash animations. These features help investigators reconstruct collisions, analyze vehicle dynamics, and create clear visual presentations for reports and court cases.

Event Data Recorder (EDR)

FARO Zone's EDR function allows investigators to manually enter crash data from an EDR report to generate an animation of the collision. This transforms raw data into a clear visual reconstruction of the crash, helping investigators analyze events, validate testimonies, and effectively present their findings in court.

MassZone Collision Prediction

Lets investigators create animations predicting crashes and their effects, such as the paths of vehicles, tire marks, and damage.

3D Crush Analysis

Measure vehicle deformation and crush volume by comparing a damaged vehicle's point cloud to an undamaged reference model (FARO Zone 3D Expert Plus)

Workflow Center

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform functions in Zone to make it easier for users.

Features Exclusive to FARO Zone 3D Expert

Features Exclusive to FARO Zone 2D, FARO Zone 3D Pro, and FARO Zone 3D Expert

FARO Zone 3D Applications

Crash Reconstruction

Investigate, analyze, and determine the events leading up to, during, and after a vehicle collision.

Crime Scene Investigation

Identify, collect, preserve, and analyze physical evidence from a crime scene to reconstruct events and support legal proceedings.

Safety Planning

Develop proactive strategies and actions to minimize risks, protect individuals, and ensure well-being in hazardous, emergency, or high-risk situations.

Courtroom Presentations

Generate vivid, compelling 2D and 3D courtroom visualizations that detail the particulars of a specific crime or crash scene event. Use these visuals to help jurors and judges gain a sense of being on location.

Arson Investigation

Provide highly accurate, detailed, and permanent digital records of fire scenes. Preserve evidence, reconstruct events, and analyze fire dynamics.

Failure Investigation

Analyze the causes of a structural, mechanical, or system failure to determine why it occurred and how to prevent future incidents.

The software comparison chart below details the features associated with the Faro Zone 2025 suite.

Use the chart to help determine which product or products are right for your organization and to determine which features best meet your needs for crash and crime scene documentation, analysis, and courtroom presentations.

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We’ll take your old 3D metrology, imaging or realization hardware or software — any brand, any condition — and apply its value toward your purchase of the latest FARO solution. The FARO Xchange program makes your upgrade easy.