Bar plot with gridlines visible over plot?

[Helper]

Hi,
I have a bar plot and I was wondering if there is anyway to have the grid in the foreground and the actual plot in the back such that the squares are visible throughout the graph?

[Darren]

Hello,

To my knowledge there is currently no way to move the grid of a graph to the foreground, putting it above the actual plot. I will suggest to R&D that they include this feature in a future version of LabVIEW.

Please let me know if you need anything else. Have a pleasant day.

Sincerely,
Darren N.
NI Applications Engineer

[Helper]

HI,
Would there perhaps be a workaround? Such that I could see the chart in squares as opposed to just the bar lines in a bar graph?

[Darren]

Hello,

I do not know of a workaround for this...the only thing I can think of is that you use a bar plot that is not filled, so that you only get the outlines of the bars, and thus can see the grid lines behind the bars.

I hope that suggestion helps. Good luck with your application, and have a pleasant day.

Sincerely,
Darren N.
NI Applications Engineer

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> I do not know of a workaround for this...the only thing I can think of
> is that you use a bar plot that is not filled, so that you only get
> the outlines of the bars, and thus can see the grid lines behind the
> bars.
>

This is probably the easiest, but another approach is to make an additional
couple plots that make up the grid. If using an XY graph, the grid is just
a data set that goes (X, Y0), (x, Ymax), (X+dX, Ymax), (X+dX, Y0), ...

You can generate the grid once in a loop and just append it to your data any
time you like.

Greg McKaskle