4. Layouts

With layouts, you can reuse a workspace for a recurring task or share it with a teammate solving a similar problem.

A perception engineer may develop layouts for calibrating various sensors, a planning engineer may have a few for visualizing different routing algorithm outputs, and a controls engineer may build one for plotting robot kinematics.

Use the "Layouts" tab in the left sidebar to create, edit, and share layouts.

Personal layouts

Personal layouts are accessible to only you – they cannot be viewed, loaded, or edited by anyone else. If you use lichtblick locally, the layouts in in the layouts tab will be the ones saved from the previous session. There is an added feature of opening layouts from the local folder - the layout selection logic is as follows:

• Loading User Layouts: All layouts in the ~/.lichtblick-suite/layouts folder are now loaded first.
• Layout Selection: If user-defined layouts are present, the first one is selected. If no layouts are found, only then is a new "Default" layout created and selected.

Create

Use Create new layout option to start building a custom workspace.

Add and position Panels, configure their settings and adjust playback settings.

Edit

When switching layouts after making edits to your current personal layout, you can take either of the following actions:

• Save changes: Save your changes to the layout
• Revert: Discard changes and revert to the last explicitly saved layout version

Import and Export

Use a layout's context menu to "Export..." it as a JSON file. Alternatively, open the app menu's "View" submenu to "Export layout to file...". Use the "Layouts" menu's "Import from file..." option to load an exported layout JSON file. Alternatively, open the app menu's "View" submenu to "Import layout from file...".

Other

Use each layout's details menu to rename, duplicate, or delete any personal layout.

To perform a batch action on multiple layouts:

• Use Cmd to multi-select individual layouts
• Use Shift to select a range of adjacent layouts
• Right-click any selected layout's context menu to select a batch action

You can also add a new layout if you drag-and-drop.