Peel a wall, take the roof off, or cut a cross-section through the editable 3D building model — and light it to match when the call came in.
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The 3D building in an incident isn't a flat box standing in for the structure — it's a real, editable model with storeys, a roof shape, and windows and doors on every wall. Set it up once and use it to show a crew what was above or behind them.
The app builds the model from the public building footprint at the incident address when one is available, falling back to the perimeter you traced on the floor plan when it isn't. If you built the structure in the scene editor and attached it, that geometry — rooms, names, and all — takes its place instead. See Attach a scene to a drill. When neither source has a roof shape to go on, the model defaults to a gable roof.
Open the Scene chip in the top-left of the 3D view. Its panel leads with the Building group, which edits the model directly:
A line under the controls names where the model came from — "Seeded from map data" or "Seeded from an attached scene," for instance, and "Custom edits saved to this incident" once you've made any.
The Structure group is where you take the building apart:
All four apply to the model only — the photoreal imagery around it can't be cut.
Time of day lights the model to match when the call came in: a 2 AM call renders at night; a call with no timestamp defaults to daylight. Drag the slider to preview another hour, or click Reset to incident time to go back.
Weather is derived from the incident's own data only — season or time of day alone never invents rain or snow — and defaults to clear. Override it with the Weather row, or click Reset to incident conditions. Weather freezes in place when replay is paused, and settles to a still frame under reduced motion.
The Building display control picks what you're looking at: 3D imagery shows the best available photoreal layer, Building model forces the editable model on screen, and Both composes the model inside the photoreal scene — useful when the surrounding blocks matter but the building itself still needs to peel and cut.
Anyone, including a viewer, can peel walls, cut a cross-section, and change the time or weather — none of it touches the saved model. Editing the Building group itself — stories, roof shape, openings, colors — needs member access or higher; a viewer sees the same controls marked read-only.