Radar Plot

[OA1]

Hi guys, is there a "better looking" plot output of the radar plot.vi. I want to plot some fancy charts but the radar plot doesn't look all that great. Or can the properties of the picture be manipulated i.e line thickness, point and dash etc...

I also tried looking at the advanced plotting toolkit but that doesn't support multiple y-axis on any of the plots.

Thanks.

[cstorey]

I think for pretty you would want to use Advanced Plotting Toolkit. I don't understand your comment about why you haven't tried it.  You might want to post some sample images of what you are trying to achieve.

As for the native Radar plot, there a bit you can modify to change the appearance.  If you drill down in the Simple Radar Plot example you will find that its built using the picture tools.  There's a call to the "Draw Multiple Lines.vi" (which is called by "Draw Plot.vi") where you can specify the Pen styles and one of the options is line thickness.  Right now its set to 1 by default, but you can easily change that yourself.  The problem is the lines aren't anti-aliased so ts not all that pretty. 

Some examples of modifying the pen styles.. (default line width 1 style solid, line width 3, line width 2 and style Dots)..

[JÞB]

See here

[OA1]

Hi cstorey, I actually did try advanced plotting toolkit, but because it doesn't support multiple y-axis it's useless for my current needs. I was looking for a picture output similar to this image:

Hi Jeff, by radar plot, what I actually meant was a spider plot... Sorry for the confusion.

[JÞB]

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@OA1 wrote:

Hi cstorey, I actually did try advanced plotting toolkit, but because it doesn't support multiple y-axis it's useless for my current needs. I was looking for a picture output similar to this image:

Hi Jeff, by radar plot, what I actually meant was a spider plot... Sorry for the confusion.

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No problem,   it is a cool thread. I hope you enjoyed it!

[alexderjuengere]

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@OA1 wrote:

 by radar plot, what I actually meant was a spider plot... Sorry for the confusion.

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NI calls them Radar Plot, but let's settle on Spider Plot

>Hi cstorey, I actually did try advanced plotting toolkit, but because it doesn't >support multiple y-axis it's useless for my current needs. I was looking for a picture >output similar to this image: [...]

so you can modify NI's radar plot, or re-build a spider plot based on a XY graph..

data from "..National Instruments\LabVIEW 2017\examples\Graphics and Sound\Picture Plots\Simple Radar Plot.vi"

[cstorey · Accepted solution]

You can normalize the data, which is the same as individual Y scales for each spider leg...but ts still a polar plot with circles drawn.  You would have to see about customizing the appearance and adding labels yourself for axis mazima.

[alexderjuengere · Accepted solution]

here's a slightly better version, with programmatic annotations.

[OA1]

Really nice exmaples guys, I'll play with them.

Thanks.