drawtonomy vs Truevision Designer
Truevision Designer
Section titled “Truevision Designer”Truevision Designer by Truevision AI is a desktop 3D tool for designing roads, intersections, and environments used to test autonomous vehicles and robots.
What Truevision Designer covers (per the official page and GitHub repository):
- An OpenDRIVE editor with
.xodrimport and export (OpenDRIVE 1.4 per the README). - Tools for roads, lanes, junctions, markings, and terrain.
- Export to the CARLA simulator.
- Free for non-commercial use, with a separate license for commercial use.
For OpenDRIVE authoring outside of paid commercial tooling, Truevision Designer is one of the available options.
Where drawtonomy might fit alongside it
Section titled “Where drawtonomy might fit alongside it”drawtonomy is a browser whiteboard for 2D top-down driving diagrams. It imports .xodr and exports it back out; per its exporter docs, the OpenDRIVE exporter (up to 1.8) covers a subset of the spec — lanes, traffic lights, crosswalks, basic objects — and approximates analytical geometry for roads you author, while round-tripping untouched roads verbatim via carry-through.
A few small things drawtonomy can add alongside Truevision Designer:
- Import a
.xodrfor a quick 2D edit in the browser, then take it back to the desktop tool. - OpenSCENARIO 1.2 export in the same step as OpenDRIVE — useful when you also want a paired
.xoscfor esmini playback. - Browser-only, no install — convenient for a quick sketch before going to the desktop tool.
.drawtonomy.svgas a re-editable figure source for documentation.
A reasonable pattern: Truevision Designer for the OpenDRIVE map, drawtonomy for the figure of the scenario laid on top.
In the same ASAM OpenDRIVE ecosystem
Section titled “In the same ASAM OpenDRIVE ecosystem”Truevision Designer and drawtonomy both contribute to the ASAM OpenDRIVE ecosystem. The community around freely available OpenDRIVE tooling is small — Truevision Designer, Blender DSC, scenariogeneration, and drawtonomy each cover a different part of it. Files produced by Truevision Designer can be visualized in esmini the same way drawtonomy’s output can, so the two tools sit in the same downstream pipeline even if they don’t directly share files.