Your traces can be places on as many as six left axes and six right axes. These axes can be stacked or overlapping or both. DAQFactory creates all the possible axes when the graph is created, but only displays the axes that have traces assigned to them. All the parameters for the axes are available from the Axes sheet of the graph's properties box. To the left side of the box is the list of axes. Click on the desired axis you would like to edit the parameters for, and the fields to the right will be filled in with these parameters.
New Name: If you would like to rename your axis, simply replace the default name with your new name. The axis list and any traces assigned to this axis will automatically be adjusted.
Axis Label: This is the label that is displayed along the axis. Depending on the size of your graph, you may find it easier to read axis labels if you put a space between each character.
Plotting Method: Each axis can have one of a variety of plotting methods. All traces assigned to an axis will use the same plotting method. Some plotting methods are only available on left axes. The various methods are pretty self-explanatory, so we invite you to simply try them. Some methods may not work well with all data sets. Again, experiment.
Right Axis: This is a read only field. It indicates whether the axis will be displayed on the left or right side of the graph. This may seem extremely obvious considering the default names of the axes, but if you rename all your axes, things may get less obvious.
Axis Color: This determines the color of the axis and scaling labels. Click on the current color to open the color selection dialog box and select a new color.
Style: You can display any axis in either linear or logarithmic scaling. The bottom axis can also be displayed in Date + Time mode, which will automatically display the time values in a more readable form instead of seconds since 1970. Note that if you try and set an axis into logarithmic scaling and the axis contains traces with illegal log values (i.e. <= 0) then the scaling will revert back to linear.
Row: To create a stacked axis, simply assign a different row to each axis. If you would like to have stacked and overlapped axes, assign the same row number to the overlapping axes.
% of Full Axis: Stacked axes do not have to have an even share of the vertical space of the graph. If you leave this field at 100 for all the axes, then this occur. You can change this field to an appropriate percentage to make one stacked axis use more or less of the total space. If you change this field, all the values for this field for the axes in use should add up to 100.
Align. Thresh: For X vs Y graphs, you may often be plotting data taken at different time scales. DAQFactory will perform an automatic alignment of your data in time just like the Align() function. This parameter is passed to the Align() function and determines how close two data points have to be in seconds to be considered to have the same time. If you want to disable this feature, set the alignment threshold to a negative number.
Auto Grid Control: If checked, DAQFactory will automatically set the grid line and tick spacing for you. If not, you will need to specify spacing values in the next two fields.
Major Tick Spacing: The spacing of the major grid lines and ticks in the units of the axis.
Minor Tick Spacing: The spacing of the minor ticks in the units of the axis.
Full Length Minor Ticks? If checked, grid lines are displayed for minor ticks as well as major ticks.
Area Graphs Negative from X Axis: Applies only if your Plotting Method is set to Area. If this is checked, then the area graph will shade to 0. If not, then the graph will shade to the bottom of the graph.
