Creating/Editing Plots¶

Creating a Plot¶

Plots are the primary means of visualizing data in RAVEN.

To create a plot, click the chart New plot button on the toolbar.

Everything necessary to create a plot with a single series (usually Temperature vs Time) will be set by default. The name of the initial series, as well as the source analysis and data columns can be adjusted. The format of the series is also editable.

To create a plot with multiple series, click the ... button beside either the Y-axis data or X-axis data. This will allow the selection of several data columns, and a series will be created for each selected column versus the single opposing data column.

When multiple data columns are selected, checking the “rotate” checkboxes for axes or formatting will increment the checked selection for each series created. If the checkboxes are not selected, every series will be created on the same axis, or with the same formatting options.

Editing a Plot¶

To edit a plot, double-click the plot item in the plot tree. The Plot Options dialog will be shown.

This dialog allows you to adjust various attributes of a plot, including the name, legend, gridlines, and automatic series label types.

All plots are created with the Default unit system, which means they will use whichever unit system RAVEN is currently set to use. If a plot is manually set to either SI or USCS, it will display using that unit system, regardless of the system RAVEN is set to use.

The Axis Labels tab allows you to override the automatically generated names for the various axes on a plot.

Adding Series¶

To add a series, right-click on a plot frame and select New Series.... The Create Series dialog will be shown, which is nearly the same as the dialog used to create a plot.

Editing Series¶

To edit a series, double-click the curve on the plot itself. This will display the Edit Series dialog.

This dialog is very similar to the dialog used when creating plots/series, except without the ability to manipulate multiple series at once.

Viewing Data on Plots¶

Plots can be interacted with in a variety of ways. The main toolbar has several icons to ease navigatiion on plots.

Button	Function
Select Tool	Selecting plot items (spacebar)
Pan Tool	Pan around the plot (p)
Zoom window	Zoom the plot using a bounding box (z)
Probe tool	Used to extract data values at a specific point on a series
Zoom Extents	Zoom to the extents of the data (x)
Zoom in	Zoom the current plot in (+)
Zoom out	Zoom the current plot out (-)