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josborne

Stacked Plots improvements!

Status: New

Its possible to stack plots using a WaveForm Chart:

 

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You can also do it using Mixed Signal Graphs.

 

 

But the functionality is very restrictive.  I propose these improvements:

 

  • Allow stacking plots on Waveform Graphs and XY Graphs also.
  • Allow users to modify the number of stacked plots at run-time.  This is currently impossible.  You need to pick the number of plots you want to stack during design-time.  And then you are stuck with it at run-time.  Though there are certainly plenty of clumsy attempted workarounds to this problem (e.g. see here).  It would be great to have this function for run-time.  Its very common in Biomedical data-acquisition applications to allow users to vizualize data in stacked plots (EEG for example), and its a pain to program this in a flexible manner using LabVIEW.

 

http://www.medicollector.com
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josborne
Active Participant

Whoops.  Looks like this was already posted.  I could have sworn I searched for it and came up blank.  Oh well.  Go here and vote for it:

 

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Ability-to-change-number-of-stacked-plots-on-a-chart-a...

 

Though my only new contribution is to also allow this function in Waveform Charts.

http://www.medicollector.com
dthor
Active Participant

@josborne wrote:

Its possible to stack plots using a WaveForm Chart: 


Wait, what? Really? How? I've been using Mixed Signal graphs for this and it's quite diicult to get it to act just how I want it to (LV2012). Please explain.

Darin.K
Trusted Enthusiast

Right Click Waveform Chart -> Stack Plots

dthor
Active Participant

Awe man, of course it's that easy! Sometimes the hardest things to see are right in front of you. Thanks!

 

As for the post: Kudos for the Idea to make the same thing possible with WFGraphs and XY and for allowing edit at runtime.

Станев
Member

Hi,

I am using LabView 2016... I cannot find how to stack plots on WaveForm Graphs?
Is that still unimplemented?