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The Construction Zone Manager is used to create and manage zones and is opened using the Zoning button located within the 4D Simulation toolbox.

When the Construction Zone Manager is opened the 3D Scene will change to an alternate render mode and a top down orthographic view to allow the user to easily see where the zone should be placed.

Construction zones are created with at drawing tool that allows the user to make free form extrusions to describe the area that the zone encapsulates.

Use the Create button to start creating a zone. Next click in the 3D scene to place each corner of the zone. in order to complete drawing the zone you must place at least 3 points.

If a zone does not have enough points they are displayed as red lines.

A solid green line is always a permanent line and will be added as an edge of the zone. The Pink line desribes the line

that will be added to the zone bounds once the user clicks in that location. The dotted green line describes the last line in the shape. If more lines are added the dotted line will change. If the zone is completed the dotted line will become an edge.

Use the ESC key to complete drawing lines for the zone.

After the Bounds of the zone are drawn the user is able to select the height of the zone separately. Use the blue arrows to adjust the height of the zone.

Use the ESC key to complete adjusting the height of the zone.

The Construction Zone Manager displays a list of all zones in the project. Zones in the list can be selected.

When a zone is selected it appears with a orange highlight

Double click the Name of the zone to change it.

Selecting the Color allows the user to change the color and opacity of the zone.

The Delete button removes the currently selected zone.

The Edit button opens Transformation Tool to edit the currently selected zone.

The Transformation Tool allows you to manipulate the zone like any other 3D object. To filter by a zone, create a new filter in your Filter Tab, edit it and select zone from the drop down menu and select your newly created zone. This filter can then be used to populate your task with all of the objects located in your zone.

Zones can be assigned to temp tasks to display at specific times during a construction animation.

This is a great way to show which areas of the construction site are currently active.

The Show Task List radio button toggles whether the Gantt Chart is displayed while the Construction Zone Manager is open. The Gantt Chart and the Construction Zone Manager must be displayed so that the user can select both a task and a Zone at the same time.

Enable Zone Edit must be active in order to remove or add selected zones to tasks.

Adds the zone selected in the Contsruction Zone manager to the selected temp task. When added to a temp task zones displays during the duration of the task.