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drawtonomy vs Truevision Designer

Truevision Designer

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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 .xodr import 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

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drawtonomy is a browser whiteboard for 2D top-down driving diagrams. Per its exporter docs, its OpenDRIVE 1.8 exporter covers a subset of the spec — lanes, traffic lights, crosswalks, basic objects — and does not yet emit junction primitives or traffic signs as <signal> entries.

A few small things drawtonomy can add alongside Truevision Designer:

  • OpenSCENARIO 1.3 export in the same step as OpenDRIVE — useful when you also want a paired .xosc for esmini playback.
  • Browser-only, no install — convenient for a quick sketch before going to the desktop tool.
  • .drawtonomy.svg as 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

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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.

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