Export your scene as SVG, PNG, PDF, or drawtonomy.svg

drawtonomy ships several export formats. The one to reach for most of the time is drawtonomy.svg — a regular SVG with extra metadata, so you can reopen the file and pick up where you left off. It’s also valid SVG, so it previews correctly in browsers, slide decks, and documentation pipelines without conversion.

The other formats — PNG, JPG, SVG (flat), PDF, EPS — are for cases where you want a static image and don’t need to re-edit it.

For driving-simulator output (OpenDRIVE / OpenSCENARIO / Lanelet2), see the dedicated ASAM export page.

Where to start: drawtonomy.svg

drawtonomy.svg preserves shape IDs, lane connections, shared points, footprint groups, style, and the which-shape-is-on-top relationships. The same file is:

Re-editable. Drag it back into drawtonomy and the scene comes back exactly as you left it — every connection, shared point, and overlap relationship intact.
Previewable. It’s valid SVG, so GitHub, browsers, Markdown renderers, and slide tools display it correctly without conversion.
Doc-friendly. Vector, scales cleanly, small file size, no rasterisation artefacts. It stays sharp at any zoom in a README or paper figure.

drawtonomy.svg is a reasonable default for anything that might be edited again, shared with a teammate who has drawtonomy, or embedded in technical documentation.

A finished avoidance scene exported, then reopened in a fresh tab — every shape and overlap relationship survives.

Save as drawtonomy.svg

Open the menu (top-left).
Click Export.
Pick drawtonomy.svg.

The file downloads with a name based on the scene’s title.

Reopen

Drag the file back into drawtonomy, or use Import in the same menu. The whole scene appears in a fresh tab with every shape selectable. The Attribute Panel shows an OVERLAPPING OBJECTS section when you click into an area where shapes overlap — the relationship between, say, a vehicle and the lane it sits on survives the round-trip.

Other image formats

When you only need a flat picture — no editing, no metadata — pick one of these from the same Export menu.

Format	Use it for	Notes
PNG	Slides, docs, web pages	Lossless raster.
JPG	Smaller files when transparency isn’t needed	Lossy raster.
SVG (flat)	Post-processing in Illustrator / Inkscape, web embedding	Visually identical to drawtonomy.svg, but the metadata is stripped.
PDF	Print, archival, papers	Vector, supports transparency.
EPS	Legacy publishing pipelines	Vector. Does not support transparency — see below.

EPS and transparency

EPS does not encode transparency. A shape with opacity 60% will export at full opacity. If your scene relies on transparency, export PDF or SVG instead.

ASAM and Lanelet2 export

For driving-simulator targets — OpenDRIVE, OpenSCENARIO, esmini bundle, Lanelet2 — see Export to OpenDRIVE / OpenSCENARIO / esmini.