Creating Templates in Easy Street Draw (ESD)
If you find that you end up drawing the same intersection for many of your crash reports, you can do the following to save the road diagrams before adding objects specific to a crash such as vehicles, pedestrians, etc.:
  1. Launch ESD either from a crash form or by going to Start > All Programs > Easy Street Draw
  2. Draw the intersection/roads needed
  3. Go to File, up at the top, and then select Export…
  4. Browse to a location on your computer where you would like to save this diagrams (Suggestion: You could create a new folder called Diagrams in the C:\ProgramData\TraCS folder)
  5. Give the diagram a meaningful name such as AivikKogiakIntersection:



  6. Click on the Save button to save the diagram
  7. Next time you have to fill out a crash report at the same intersection/location click on the ESD Diagram option within the crash form
  8. Click on the Open button



  9. Click the Launch button to launch Easy Street Draw
  10. Click on File up at the top
  11. Select Import …
  12. Browse to the folder where you saved your previously created diagrams
  13. Select the diagram you need by either double clicking on the image itself, or by clicking once on the diagram and the clicking on the Open button:



  14. Make the changes necessary (e.g. add vehicles involved, pedestrians, etc.) as you normally would on a new diagram
  15. Close Easy Street Draw to embed the updated diagram into your new crash form
If you have a previous diagram that contains vehicles/pedestrians etc. that you would like to reuse but remove the vehicles/pedestrians etc. then:
  1. Open the crash report containing the diagram
  2. Put it in Edit mode by clicking on the Edit Form button
  3. Go to the Diagram field; the ESD Diagram will auto-select since the diagram was already created in ESD
  4. Click on the Open button
  5. Click on the Launch button
  6. If you need to get rid of an object such as a vehicle, then select one of the shapes from the left-hand side such as the oval tool, which is the 9th one on the list below:



  7. Then drag the oval shape on top of the vehicles/objects that you need to remove
  8. If the oval/shape has a border then click on the More button on the bottom:


  9. Click on Properties...



  10. Select Transparent for the Border Color and click the OK button:



  11. Do the same for all objects that need to be removed from your previously created diagram until you have the base diagram you need
  12. Save the blank (intersection/roads only) diagram for future use if desired.
You can also share the diagrams created with others in your agency so they can use them as well, by copying the saved .bmp files from your computer into theirs.