Graphing Features

Improvements to Existing Graph Types

New Polar Graph (ORG-7889)

New axis dialog with more control of Radial and Azimuth axes (ORG-5420, ORG-8184)
Different unit support for Azimuth axis ( ORG-2267, ORG-8137)
Flexible Start Angle&Orientation Combination (ORG-1796)
Crop (ORG-5420). To access Crop controls, right-click on the plot and Axis..., then select Miscellaneous in the Axis Dialog box.
New control features in Azimuth grid lines (ORG-1796)

New Box Chart (ORG-2523)

Box width and position with information from Column Label Rows (ORG-1943, ORG-4094)

User can put Box width and Box position information in Column Label Rows.

Then on Box tab in Plot Details dialog, use the Box Width(%) dropdown list and Scaling Factor for Box width control.

Use X Position dropdown list for Box position control.

More control of data +box

Data can show above box (ORG-5901)

Data display width. Setting Data Width to 0 will show data in a line. (ORG-5881)

Data point symbol color by indexing (ORG-1905)

I Shape Box (ORG-7839)

Controls are on the Box tab of Plot Details. Set Style to I-Shaped Box.

Individual line control of different lines (whisker, cap, median, mean, distribution curve) (ORG-816)

Box Chart Legend (ORG-4346)

Right click graph and choose Add/Update Legend Entries:Box Chart Components.

Built-in Box Chart Themes (ORG-7916)

With Box chart graph window active, open Tools:Theme Organizer.

We provide some common box chart themes. User can apply it to quickly change box chart.

Fill Area between two Line Plots (ORG-3693)

After plotting a graph with two line plots. User can Fill to next data plot - One Color, Fit to next data plot - Above Below Colors to fill color(s) between two line plots.

Column/Bar with Variable Width (ORG-4155)

On Spacing tab of Plot Details dialog, user can set which column to be used as column width. Also support Scaling Factor.

Akima and Modified Bezier Line Connect (ORG-3238)

Ternary Contour from Matrix with r and therta as X and Y

New Plot Types

Piper/Trilinear Diagram (ORG-5409)

Data must be organized in Ca, Mg, Na+K, Cl, SO4, CO3+HCO3 and in XYZXYZ column designation. TDS column is optional.

Highlight XYZXYZ columns and choose Plot: Specialized: Piper

Customize the symbol shape to distinguish each sample.

Customize symbol size to show TDS

Marginal Histogram/Box Chart (ORG-8520)

Menus and Buttons are added under Plot: Statistics: menu.

Stacked Column/bar with Percentage(ORG-8825) - not done yet

3D OpenGL Waterfall (ORG-7998)

Menus and Buttons are added under Plot: 3D XYY: menu.

3D Ternary Surface (ORG-917)

Plot:3D Surface:3D Ternary Colormap Surface. Toolbar button is under Plot: 3D Colormap Surface group on 3D and Contour Graphs toolbar.

3D Triangle Patch by Specified Data Index (ORG-8141)

3D OpenGL Improvements

Data Labeling for XYZ and XYY Bars (ORG-5697)

Label tab in Plot Details dialog.

More 2D Symbol Shapes for 3D Scatter Graph (ORG-7769)

Open Plot Details for your 3D Scatter graph. On the Symbol tab, set Symbol Type to 2D, then select from 2D symbol shapes as in a 2D graph.

Link Contour Line Color to Colormap (ORG-4967)

Check Link Line to Colormap Color checkbox in Contour Lines dialog. Contour line color will follow colormap.

In the graph below, Fill color and Mesh lines are disabled.

Edit Range in 3D Graph (ORG-7973)

Only supports editing row and column indices.

Axis Break in 3D (ORG-6073)

Support in all 3 dimensions.

Support 3D Graph with Filtered Column (ORG-8302) - bug fix

In 9.0, for XYZ data, even if there is data filtering in a column, 3D graph will still plot all data. This is fixed in 9.1.

Plotting Improvements

In the past, if user customized a graph and saved it as a graph template, he/she has to go to Template Library to plot from customized template.

In 9.1, user can choose Plot: User Defined to see all customized graph templates and plot from it. It doesn't matter which category the graph template is saved into.

Graphing Improvements

2D Anti-aliasing (ORG-4987)

Added Anti-aliasing control so lines look better on monitor.

Smart Labeling for 2D plot Labels - not fully working yet (ORG-7923)

Line annotation with * in Column/Bar plots (ORG-8703) – todo

Isometric Support to Layer (ORG-2681)

For 2D Graphs, it's on Size/Speed tab of Layer level of Plot Details dialog. When this option is selected, X and Y axes will be forced to have the same length in pixel for the same scale increment. The check box will be hidden when the scale is not linear.

For 3D graphs, it's on Axis tab of Layer level in Plot Details dialog.

Legend Improvements (ORG-1925)

Easy way to add categorical Legend/box chart legend, etc.

If there is categorical data in a plot, or if the plot is box chart, when right-clicking the legend, there will bean Add/Update Legend Entries context menu item to easily add a corresponding legend.

Easier way to Update Legend (ORG-7650)

Right click the graph legend and choose Update Legend... from the context menu. This opens the legendupdate dialog box. When you set Auto Legend Translation Mode to Custom, a Legend Custom Format option is added, allowing you to choose meta-data options for customizing the legend. Note that this box allows text entry and custom entries are saved when the dialog is closed.

Customized Color/Shape/Interior Increment List for plot (ORG-2518, ORG-8795)

User can create and use his/her color list, shape list, or interior list when plotting graph.

In Plot Details dialog, set the Color, Shape or Interior to be Increment or Indexing

Then the Color List, Shape List and Interior List tabs will show. User can check Use custom increment list check box and then customize the increment list.

User can also right click in the gray area of the increment list and load an increment list or save the Increment list for future usage.

E.g. the following scatter plot uses customized color, shape and increment list. This is supported in other plot types.

Moving Parent Layer when Moving Linked Child Layer (ORG-8809)

Select the When dragged to reposition, also reposition parent layer check box on Size/Speed tab of a linked layer (layer level in the Plot Details dialog box). When moving a child layer, parent layer will follow.

3 Panning Modes – added Panning to Major/Minor Ticks (ORG-8511)

Support 3 panning mode.

Pan by percent: Default behavior. Every time +/-/Left/Right key is pressed using mouse wheel to scroll once will pan by percent.
Pan by major ticks: Every time +/-/Left/Right key is pressed using mouse wheel to scroll once will pan to next/previous major ticks.
Pan by minor ticks: Every time +/-/Left/Right key is pressed using mouse wheel to scroll once will pan to next/previous minor ticks.

After user clicks button to go into Zoom and Panning mode, or holds down X key to go into Panning mode, user can press SPACE keyboard to toggle panning modes.

Add Multiple Graphs to Layout Together (ORG-8077)

Graph: Add Graphs to Layout... menu.

Better naming in Plot Details db (ORG-8935)

Tooltip when mousing over data plots on left panel.

Showing both Short Name and Long name in settings that can refer to a column.

Graph: Zoom All to show out of page objects (ORG-8234)

View:Zoom All menu to zoom out to see objects out of page. This is useful when there are unwanted objects in hidden area of graph window and causing trouble when exporting graph, etc.

Merge Graph Improvements (ORG-2404)

Add Label to each layer (ORG-8054)

User can choose to add alpha characters or custom labels to each layer when merging graphs.

Treat Layers in Each Source Graph as a Group (ORG-5394)

When merging graphs, all layers in source graph will be treated as a group, no matter linked or not linked.