Currently the gradual selection tool defaults to the "Reprojection Error" criterion when opened. With a 16 million point cloud it takes me 2 minutes for the "analyzing point cloud" dialog to complete, then I have to select what I want (reconstruction uncertainty) and wait another 77 seconds for that analysis to complete. If I could select the criterion before the analysis started it would save me time. Also as in the post I +1'd it would be great if this were exposed in batch/python API