How-to guides

How-to guides are recipes. They assume you’ve used the editor a bit and just need the steps for a specific task.

If you’re new, start with the Tutorials.

Drawing lanes

• Use the Lane tool
• Smooth lane boundaries
• Generate lanes from a map
• Edit segments and add points
• Manage lane connections (Next / Previous / Left / Right)

Placing participants

• Add vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic lights
• Use Path Footprint to populate a path with vehicles

Editor mechanics

• Snap to existing geometry
• Share points between shapes
• Customise color, opacity, width, and style

Importing maps

• Import a Lanelet2 (.osm) file
• Import a ROS OccupancyGrid (.pgm + .yaml)

Exporting

• Export your scene — drawtonomy.svg as the default, plus PNG / JPG / SVG / PDF / EPS for static images.
• Export to OpenDRIVE / OpenSCENARIO / esmini