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This task shows you how to edit the 2D Display parameters.
You can edit:
- x axis parameters (limits, scale, ...)
- y axis parameters (limits, scale, ...)
- plot parameters (color, thickness of the line,
...)
- legend parameters (position, text style,
...)
- display parameters (background color,
units, ...)
- graph parameters (cursor, legend, ...)
The following diagram gives you the main parts of a 2D
Display document.
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To perform this task, you have to:
In this task, you will work with the following graph:

Editing X Axis Parameters
You will see here how to edit the x axis system parameters. |
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Right-click the X axis system.
The following contextual menus are available:

- Limits: lets you choose
between the following options:
- Free
- Optimized
- Fixed...: lets you fix the limit of the X axis by
entering Lower and Upper values.
- Application Defined
- Format:
- Linear: lets you select a linear scale
- Octaves: lets you choose a scale with logarithm in
base 2
- Decades: lets you choose a scale with logarithm in
base 10
- Power2: lets you choose a scale with logarithm in
base 2 and the annotation in real powers of 2
- Options...: lets you access the X Axis dialog box.
You can also double-click the X Axis to access the X
Axis dialog box.

- Limits: for more details, click
here.
- Format: for more details, click
here.
- Annotation:
- Include limit annotation: lets you hide or show
the limit values of the axis.
- Include tick annotation: lets you hide or show the
tick values.
- Include units: lets you hide or show the unit
values.
- Include format: lets you hide or show the selected
scale format.
- Include title: lets you hide or show the axis
title.
- Setting for Linear Formats
- Number of divisions: Automatic,
One, Two, Four, Five,
Ten
- Resolution: Automatic, One,
Two, Four, Five, Ten
- Title: lets you modify the
name of the axis.
- Default: lets you preserve the default axis name (X
axis).
- Custom: lets you enter a new axis name.
This will modify the name of the dialog box.
- Grid: lets you modify the
Color, the Dash Style and the Weight of
the grid.
- Show on major ticks
- Show on minor ticks
- Text Style: lets you change
the style of the x axis text.
- Inherit
- Customized: lets you customize the text style of
the X axis. You can choose the Size and the Font
of the X axis text.
- Make children inherit
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Select the Options... contextual menu.
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Select the desired parameters in the X Axis dialog box.
In this particular example,
- select Fixed limits in the Limits tab,
- enter 600 as Upper value,
- select the Customized option in the Text Style
tab,
- enter 2.00 as Size value.
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Click OK in the X Axis dialog box.
The x axis appears as shown here:
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Editing Y Axis Parameters
You will see here how to edit the y axis system. |
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Right-click the y axis.
The following contextual menus are available.

- Limits: for more details, click
here.
- Format:
- Real
- Imaginary
- Phase degrees
- Phase radians
- Amplitude
- Logarithmic
- dB(RMS)
- dB(Peak)
- Options...: lets you access the Y Axis dialog box.
You can also double-click the Y Axis to access the Y
Axis dialog box.

- Limits: for more details, click
here.
- Format: for more details, click
here.
- Title: for more details, click
here.
- Annotation: for more details, click
here.
- Grid: for more details, click
here.
- Text Style: for more details, click
here.
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Select the Options... contextual menu.
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Select the desired parameters.
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Click OK in the Y Axis dialog box.

Editing Plot Parameters
You will see here how to edit the plot. |
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Right-click the plot.
The following contextual menus are available.

- Delete: lets you delete the plot.
- Delete all Plots: lets you delete all the displayed
plots.
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Export Data...: lets you export the 2D Display
results in a Text (.txt) file or in a Excel (.xls)
file.
If you select this contextual menu, the Export Data dialog box
appears to let you:
- select the directory in which you will export the 2D Display
data,
- name the file containing the 2D Display data,
- choose between the .txt or .xls file type.
- Options...: lets you access the Edit Plot dialog
box.
You can also double-click the plot to access the Edit Plot dialog
box.

- Data tab:
- Visualization tab: lets you define the Line
Style
- Line color: lets you choose the color of the plot
- Use line: lets you draw the plot with a line. You
can define the Dash and the Weight of the
line.
- Use symbol: lets you draw the plot with symbols.
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Select the Export Data... contextual menu.
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Select the desired directory and enter a name in the
Export Data dialog box.
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Select Excel as Save as type option
in the Export Data dialog box.
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Click OK in the Export Data dialog box.
To visualize an example of Excel export data file,
click here.
To visualize an example of Text export data file, click
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Editing Legend Parameters
You will see here how to edit the legend. |
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Double-click the graph legend.

- Plots tab: lets you visualize details of attributes
- Show entries with no data attached
- Attributes tab:
- Hide Attributes: lets you hide an attribute in the
legend
- Show Attributes: lets you show an attribute in the
legend
- Up and Down: let you change the
position of attributes in the legend
- Text Style tab: for more details, click
here.
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Select the desired parameters.
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Click OK in the Edit Legend dialog box.
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Right-click the graphic legend.
The following contextual menus are available.

- Hide Legend: lets you hide the legend.
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To show again the legend, use the Legend
contextual menu.
For more details about the Legend contextual menu,
click here. |
- Options: lets you access the Edit Legend dialog box.
For more details, click here.
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Editing Display Parameters
You will see here how to edit the background. |
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Right-click the display area.
The following contextual menus are available.

- Select Data: lets you access to the Select Data
dialog box.
For more details, refer to
Generating a 2D Display for Dynamic Response Solution.
- Options...: lets you access the Edit Display dialog
box.
You can also double-click the plot to access the Edit Display
dialog box.

- Background Colors tab:
- Display Area: lets you choose the display
area color. You can choose to have no background color (No
background) or have a background color (Include
background and Choose color).
- Graph Area: lets you choose the graph area
color. You can choose to have no background color (No
background) or have a background color (Include
background and Choose color).
- Cursor: lets you choose the background
color for values displayed using the Cursor
contextual menu. You can choose
to have no background color (No background) or
have a background color (Use background and
Choose background color).
You can also choose the color of the cursor line (Choose
line color).
- Restore Defaults: lets you restore the
default parameters.
- myraph1 tab:
- Properties:
- Units: MKS, Data Defined,
Options Defined
- Interpretation: Default
- Orientation: Default (XY),
YX
- Title: for more details, click
here.
- Data Group Map tab: Application,
Image.
- Text Style tab: for more details, click
here.
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- Image options...: lets you access the Edit Image
dialog box.

- Image Properties tab:
- UI Layout: lets you display the graph in a
window.
- Paper Layout: lets you display the graph
in a page mode.
- Paper Size: lets you set the size of the
page mode (Width, Height,
Portrait or Landscape layout).
These options are only available if you selected the
Paper Layout option.
- Text Style tab: for more details, click
here.
- Data Group Map tab:
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Select the desired parameters.
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Click OK in the Edit Display dialog box.

Editing Graph Parameters
You will see here how to edit the graph. |
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Right-click the graph area.
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Select the desired parameters.
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Click OK in the Edit Display dialog box.
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