Recon Toolkit™
Accident Reconstruction Tools for Blender
Recon Toolkit™ turns recorded crash data — EDR reports, motion tables, survey points — into animated Blender scenes, and adds the measurement and visualization tools reconstructionists need to present motion clearly and defensibly.
Capabilities
- EDR importer / entry: animate from Time + Speed + Yaw Rate or Steering Wheel Angle (bicycle-model yaw, optional slip estimate), or follow a path with a speed profile
- Motion data importer: full pose per timestamp from Time, X, Y, Z, Roll, Pitch, Yaw rows
- Point importer: numbered, labelled survey markers, connected into polylines by description
- Flexible CSV import everywhere — headers auto-matched, unit-aware, every mapping overridable
- Motion path tools: generate, toggle, and convert motion paths to editable 3D curves
- Timed location markers along an animated object's motion, with time labels
- Scale objects to a known real-world distance between two survey points
- Speed and acceleration baking to animated properties for HUD-style readouts
What’s included
Your purchase provides access to the product’s repository and official update channel for the stated update term. It is not a proprietary software license; the installed add-on remains free software under the GNU GPL.
- Official Recon Toolkit™ software package — free
- Automatic updates through the EDC Software repository
- Official documentation
Who It's For
Accident reconstruction engineers and analysts who work from EDR downloads, total-station or drone survey data, and motion analysis — and need that data on screen as accurate, presentation-ready animation.
Requirements
- Blender 4.2 or newer
- Uses Blender's bundled Python — no extra installation
Latest version
v1.0.6 · delivered through the EDC Software repository with automatic update notifications in Blender.
Install & updates
Your repository secret is delivered instantly — it appears on the confirmation page as soon as you check out (and free products issue one after a quick sign-up). Then, in Blender 4.2 or newer:
- Open Edit → Preferences → Get Extensions.
- Open the Repositories dropdown (top right) →
+ → Add Remote Repository, and paste
https://extensions.edccorp.com/index.json. - Enable "Requires Access Token" on that repository and paste the repository secret you received into the Secret field.
- Your products appear under Available — click Install.
- Make sure the add-on is enabled. Installing usually ticks its checkbox for you, but if the product's sidebar tab doesn't appear, open Edit → Preferences → Add-ons, search for the product, and tick its checkbox to activate it. Updates then arrive automatically.
- Save your preferences so this sticks. Blender normally saves them automatically; if it doesn't, open the ≡ menu at the bottom-left of the Preferences window and choose Save Preferences — otherwise you may have to re-enable the add-on next time you open Blender.
Upgrading from an older, manually-installed version of this add-on? You can disable or remove it anytime from Edit → Preferences → Add-ons — search for it, untick it to disable, or use Remove to uninstall. The new extension replaces it.
Because the installed add-on is GPL-licensed free software, copies you have already received remain yours to use, study, modify, and share under the GPL. When the update term ends, repository access for future official builds and automatic updates may require renewal.