The Advanced Options feature on the Build Plots panel allows you to apply many options at once to the session during plotting. Curves created in this manner are added to the session in a new layer. From the Build Plots panel, click Adv. Options to display the Advance Plot Options dialog.
The Advanced Plot Options dialog contains a tree on the left side and the Properties Table on the right. From the tree, you can select the plot entity that you want to apply to the curve. The Properties Table lists the properties and current values for the selected plot entity.
| Note | A curve must be specified in the Build Plots panel before you can apply options to it using the Advanced Plot Options feature. |
Once you have selected the plot entities to apply to the curve, click OK to exit out of the Advanced Plot Options dialog and return to the Build Plots panel. From the Build Plots panel, click Apply to apply the advanced plot options to the curve and display it in the plot window.
Click Reset to return all options to their default settings.
To preview a curve with the options selected, click the View button from the Advanced Plot Options dialog.
You can modify the following plot entities using this feature:
Page Options
| • | Show Title - Check to display the page title; uncheck to hide it (checkbox is enabled by default). |
| • | Title - Templex-enabled edit field. |
| • | Font - Double-click on the Font icon to display the Font Selector dialog and edit the font type, size and style. |
Plot Options
Header
| • | Show Header - Check to display the page header; uncheck to hide it (checkbox is enabled by default). |
| • | Header - Click in the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as the header. |
| • | Primary Font - Double-click on the Font icon to display the Font Selector dialog and edit the font type, size and style. |
| • | Alignment - Click in the field to select from Left, Center, or Right. |
Footer
| • | Show Footer - Check to display the page header; uncheck to hide it (checkbox is disabled by default). |
| • | Footer - Click in the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as the header. |
| • | Primary Font - Double-click on the Font icon to display the Font Selector dialog and edit the font type, size and style. |
| • | Alignment - Click in the field to select from Left, Center, or Right. |
Horizontal Axis/Vertical Axis
| • | Label - Click in the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as the axis label. |
| • | Font - Double-click on the Font icon to display the Font Selector dialog and edit the font type, size and style. |
| • | Scale - Click in the field to select from Linear, Logarithmic, dB20 (with reference and weighting), and dB10 (with reference and weighting). |
| • | Fit Range - Check the Fit Range box to display the minimum and maximum fields. Values will be ignored if you create curves in a populated plot window. |
Min - Enter a maximum value. Must be greater than 0 if the scale is logarithmic, and less than maximum value.
Max - Enter a maximum value. Must be greater than 0 if the scale is logarithmic, and greater than the minimum value.
Legend
| • | Show Legend - Check to display the legend; uncheck to hide it (checkbox is enabled by default). |
| • | Location - Click in the field to select the location of the legend from the drop-down menu. Options include Inside Plot and Outside Plot. |
| • | Position - Click in the field to select the position of the legend from the drop-down menu. Options include Left-Top corner, Left-Bottom corner, Right-Top corner, and Right-Bottom corner). |
| • | Font - Double-click on the Font icon to display the Font Selector dialog and edit the font type, size and style. |
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| • | Math Expression - Check to enter math expressions to support U and V vectors. You can perform math on curves prior to plotting your data with the support of u and v vectors. |
| • | Show Prefix - Check to display the curve name prefix. |
| • | Label Prefix - Click on the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as the curve label prefix. |
| • | Show Label - Check to display the curve name label. |
| • | Label - Click in the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as part of the curve label. |
| • | Show Suffix - Check to display the curve name suffix. |
| • | Label Suffix - Click in the field to select the file path, type, request, or component as the curve label suffix. |
| • | Line Color Scheme - Choose from HyperGraph defaults or All One Color. |
| • | Line Color - If you select All One Color for Line Color Scheme, the Line Color option is displayed. Select a color from the palette. |
| • | Line Style Scheme - Choose from HyperGraph defaults or All One Color. |
| • | Line Style - If you select All One Style for Line Style Scheme, the Line Style option is displayed. Select a line style from the drop-down menu. |
| • | Line Thickness Scheme - Choose from HyperGraph defaults or All One Color. |
| • | Line Thickness - If you select All One Thickness for Line Thickness Scheme, the Line Thickness option is displayed. Select a line thickness from the drop-down menu. |
| • | Symbol Scheme - Choose from HyperGraph defaults or All One Symbol. |
| • | Symbol - If you select All One Symbol for Symbol Scheme, the Symbol option is displayed. Select a symbol type from the drop-down menu. |
| • | Symbol Color - If you select All One Symbol for Symbol Scheme, the Symbol Color option is displayed. Select a symbol color from the palette. |
| • | Symbol Frequency - If you select All One Symbol for Symbol Scheme, the Symbol Frequency option is displayed. Enter a value in the field to indicate how often a symbol is placed at a data point. |
| • | X Scalefactor - Click in the field to enter an x scale factor value. |
| • | X Offset - Click in the field to enter an x offset value. |
| • | Y Scalefactor - Click in the field to enter an y scale factor value. |
| • | Y Offset - Click in the field to enter an y offset value. |
| • | Start Index - The index number of the first data point in the subrange. The default is 1. |
| • | End Index - The index number of the last data point in the subrange. The default is last. |
| • | Index Increment - The number of points to advance when reading the subrange. The default is 1. |
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For example, to set the page title and font options at plotting time, follow these steps:
| 1. | From the Build Plots panel, specify a curve to be plotted. Click Adv. Options to display the Advanced Plot Options dialog. |
| 2. | Click the Page Options branch of the tree. |
| 3. | From the Properties Table, the Show Title checkbox is on by default. Uncheck to hide the page title. |
| 4. | In the Title field, enter a page title. |
| 5. | Click the font button to display the Font Selector dialog. |
| 6. | Select the font, font style, and size. |
| 7. | Click OK to close the Font Selector dialog. |
| 8. | Click OK to close the Advanced Plot Options dialog. |
| 9. | From the Build Plots panel, click Apply. |
Note that the specified curve has been plotted, and the page title has been properly set to the specified text and font options.
Other plot entities can be similarly applied to a curve at plotting time through the Advanced Plot Options dialog.
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