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Usage

UI Overview

Carto’s interface is made up of multiple sections.

Section 1 on the image is the 3D view. It contains all of the elements of the 3D cartography of the space : the devices, the point clouds and the crop region.

Section 3 is a toolbar with multiple menus and buttons.

Section 3 is the side bar which can be used to instanciate devices, adjust the crop region and declare network outputs.

3D View Controls

The 3D view contains different parts of you 3D cartography. What follows is a desctiption of the labeled elements of the screenshot.

  1. Camera icons. These icons takes the color assigned to each device. Each camera icon points to the centroid of the point cloud captured by the device it represents.
  2. Point cloud. Display of the point cloud captured by the camera. The point cloud takes the color assigned to its device.
  3. Camera name. This name is displayed when the camera is selected or when the mouse cursor is hovering over the camera icon.
  4. Camera manipulator gizmo. This gizmo is used to rotate and to translate a device and its point cloud. The arrows allows translations in each axis, the squares can be used to move the device in two axes at once and the arcs can be used to rotate the device.
  5. Viewpoint camera gizmo. This gizmo can be used to manipulate the viewpoint camera. Click and drag on the circular surface of the gizmo to orbit the camera around the center of the display and click on the circles representing axes to obtain orthographic views.
  1. Crop region. The gray volume represents the zone in which points will be kept. It is possible to get a gizmo on this zone by clicking on the handles

Toolbar

  1. File menu. With all the classic option: save, save as and load.
  2. Help button. Displays a menu that describes controls and shortcuts.
  3. Configuration button: Displays the global configurations menu.
  4. Log menu. Press this button to display a log widow where errors and wranings will be displayed.
  5. Othographic views dropdown menu. The menu allows you to select either the perspective view or one of the orthographic views.

  1. Camera tab. This tab contains the controls that are necessary to instanciate and configure new devices.
  2. Crop region tab. This tab allows you to configure the size and position of the crop region.
  3. Network output tab. This tab is used to instanciate and configures different network outputs.