Interface¶

The SEABIM Editor launcher is a standalone PyQt5 window that opens on top of CloudCompare. It serves as the entry point for every action of the plugin and is organised in tabs by functional domain.

Anatomy of the launcher¶

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ↶  ↷  ⟳  🎨  ⚙  ▭  ❓   ← Header (7 actions)    │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Import | Edit | Quality control | Filters |        │
│ Metadata | Export   ← Module tabs                  │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                    │
│   [Action button 1]  [Action button 2]  …          │
│   [Action button 3]  [Action button 4]  …          │
│                                                    │
│              ← Active tab action area              │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The header exposes 7 cross-cutting actions accessible from any tab (see Header module).
The tabs correspond to the business modules: Import, Edit, Quality control, Filters, Metadata, Export (and Sync if enabled by license).
The action area displays the buttons of the active module, either as a vertical list or as a grid (the case of the Filters module which exposes 11 actions as a grid).

Available tabs¶

Tab	Purpose	Detail
`Import`	Loading structures	Import module
`Edit`	Block editing	Edit module
`Quality control`	Quality metrics	Quality control module
`Filters`	Geometric filters	Filters module
`Metadata`	Metadata editing	Metadata module
`Export`	Saving and exporting	Export module

Header — cross-cutting actions¶

The header is always visible:

Icon	Action	Shortcut
↶	Undo	`Ctrl`+`Z`
↷	Redo	`Ctrl`+`Y` (alias `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Z`)
⟳	Update view	`Ctrl`+`R`
🎨	Change color scale	`Ctrl`+`L`
⚙	Settings	`Ctrl`,
▭	Reduce window size	—
❓	Shortcuts help	`F1`

Button visual states¶

Enabled: button colored, clickable.
Disabled: button greyed-out. Typical for Undo / Redo when the stack is empty, or for an action that requires a selection (click = no effect).
Badge: some actions expose a secondary badge to the right of the main button (for example Registration report on the Register selection - Adaptive dist action). The badge toggles an On/Off state bound to the action.

Tooltips and help¶

Hover a button to see its description.
Click the help icon of a dialog to open the corresponding documentation page in the browser.

Persistence¶

The internal parameters (parameters.json) and the user profiles are kept in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Seabim\.
An autosave (autosave.json) is maintained during the session.

Multi-language¶

The launcher is translated into French, English and Arabic. The language is auto-detected from the system, but can be forced via the environment variable SEABIM_LANG=fr|en|ar.