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August 2025 Product Release
Introducing Zones: Organize Your Site for Greater Insights
What Are Zones?
On large projects, it’s common to break the site into smaller, manageable sections, often called zones, areas, or sectors.
These smaller sections make it easier to:
- Assign work to trades
- Track progress in detail
- Plan schedules and manage sequencing
The challenge? Doing this in the real world is messy:
- Drawings aren’t always broken the same way (architectural drawings might be “overall,” while trade drawings show more detail)
- Physical boundaries aren’t marked on site, making it tough to know where one zone ends and the next begins during captures
- Breaking captures by zone manually takes a lot of time and coordination
How Zones in Track3D Solve This
With Track3D’s Zones functionality, you can set up your project’s zones once, and let the system handle the rest.
- Easy to Setup: Define your zones on the overall project map (no need to create separate zone maps for each capture).
- Simplified Captures: Capture the site as you normally would — no need to walk “zone by zone.”
- Automatic Alignment: The system automatically links captures to the correct zone, area, or sector.
- Flexible Reporting: View progress at:
- Zone/Area/Sector level
- Multiple selected zones together
- Entire project level
- No Extra Effort for Teams: Less time managing capture logistics, more time managing the project.
Why This Matters For You
- Better Detail: Get accurate progress data exactly where you need it.
- Smarter Performance Insights: Trades often work in sequence, zone by zone. With Zones, you can compare progress between areas. For example, Zone 1 hitting 80% completion in 2 weeks, while Zone 2 takes 3 weeks. This helps teams identify reasons for delays, adjust planning, and improve execution in real time.
- Faster Decision-Making: Spot delays or issues in specific zones before they affect the whole project.
- Simplified Coordination: Keep zone-specific teams, trades, and schedules aligned without manual mapping.
- Time Savings: Avoid repetitive manual zone setup & related data collection, modifications for each capture.
Bottom Line: Zones let you capture once and analyze any way you want, saving time, reducing errors, and improving project control.
Zone-Based Progress Tracking is now available in Track3D! To see how this feature can make tracking your projects easier, let’s set up a personalized demo and walk through it together.
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