Choosing a vehicle
The icon row at the top of the panel selects the vehicle: Hike · Bike · Motorcycle · Car · Boat · Rail When a vehicle offers more than one style, a row of variant chips appears beneath it. Each variant is a tuned starting point:| Vehicle | Variants |
|---|---|
| Hike | Moderate · Easy · Alpine |
| Bike | Trekking · Gravel · MTB · Road |
| Motorcycle | ADV · Street |
| Car | FastEco · Fastest · Scenic · Toll-free |
Motorcycle, Bike, Hike, and Car use Rendzo’s own tuned profiles. Boat and Rail use standard profiles and don’t expose the preferences below.
Basic preferences
Below the vehicle row, a short list of Basic preferences lets you nudge the route without leaving the defaults — for example Avoid climbs, Avoid busy roads, Prefer bike routes, or Never use unpaved. The exact controls depend on the vehicle.- Avoid sliders show an intensity (Don’t avoid → Slightly → Moderately → Avoid → Strongly avoid) rather than a raw number.
- A small reset appears next to a control once you’ve changed it, restoring the variant’s default.
- Allow private roads lets the engine use roads tagged private.
Expert mode
Click Expert to open the full editor for the active vehicle — every knob the profile can set, grouped by category (surfaces, road types, hills, environment, and more). Each knob shows one of three states:- Unset — dimmed, “(default)”. The variant doesn’t set it; it has no effect on routing.
- Variant default — the value the variant chose.
- Edited — a value you changed, marked with a blue dot. The header shows how many changes you’ve made from the preset.
4.5×, 1.5%, 90 kg), and cost knobs read out a Prefer ⟷ Avoid descriptor. Click the next to a knob for an explanation. Use the reset button to clear all edits back to the variant.
Saving from Expert
From the Expert header you can:- Save as profile — store the current settings as a new entry in My Profiles.
- Save changes — when you’re editing a profile you loaded, overwrite it in place.
- Save as new — fork a loaded profile into a separate copy.
My Profiles
The My Profiles button (a person with a star) at the end of the vehicle row opens your saved custom profiles. (The list replaces the Basic preferences while it’s open.) Each saved profile row offers:- Load — apply it to the route. The selected profile becomes active.
- Click the name — rename it inline.
- Edit — load it and open Expert to tweak its settings.
- Export — download it as a file (see below).
- Delete — remove it.
A loaded custom profile is an Expert artifact, so the Basic preferences are hidden while it’s active — edit it from the button or the Expert panel.
Sharing profiles
Profiles are shared as files — there’s no account-to-account linking, and an imported profile is always an independent copy.Export
Click on a profile to download it. A normal (knob-based) profile exports as a small.json file you can send to anyone.
Import
Click Import (in the action row, where Expert sits, while My Profiles is open) and pick a file. Rendzo detects the type automatically:- A
.jsonprofile exported from Rendzo is re-created as your own independent copy — fully editable in Expert. - A
.brffile is treated as a raw BRouter profile (see below).
Bring your own BRouter profile (.brf)
If you have a hand-written or community BRouter profile, import the .brf file directly with the same Import button. Rendzo validates it with the routing engine and adds it to My Profiles.
A .brf profile is opaque — it routes exactly as written, so:
- It has no Basic preferences and isn’t editable in Expert (no button).
- Its Export downloads the original
.brf.
If the routing engine rejects a
.brf, Rendzo shows the error and doesn’t save it. Profiles are capped at 256 KB — real-world BRouter profiles are a few KB.