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I like the recent improvements to the color scale (custom labels) but think there are a few more things that could make it more user friendly.
1. ability to set a default color scale
2. ability to set a default number of steps for custom color scales within the color scale editor
3. sort the color scale drop-down menu alphabetically

1. Do you mean to set a default color scale for CloudCompare? Instead of using the default 'rainbow' one?

2 & 3. Good ideas!

I was thinking it would be nice to be able to choose any one of the existing or custom scales and set it as the default for any imported point clouds. I often conduct several comparisons and need to change all the color scales. It could potentially be a drop down in the Display options under Color scale (scalar field). It may be nice if you could set separate defaults for imported clouds, clouds used in cloud-to-cloud comparisons, and clouds used in cloud-to-mesh comparisons.

A global setting (in the 'Display options' dialog) could be added indeed. But several options would be very heavy (also in terms of development ;).

I already modified the code to sort the color scales. I'll see what I can do for the default number of steps.

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but is there any news on this functionality? I'm having the same issue where I regularly load a large number of point clouds and then for each one separately have to set the right color scale and number of steps. It would be great if a default option could be made, or if it were possible to select multiple clouds and change the color scale for all in one go.

Nope, this has not been implemented and it's still in the long TODO list...