Use the Display Format page of the Properties dialog box to specify how the scales of the x-axis and y-axis appear on graphs or charts, except for the 3D graphs. To configure the scales for the graph or chart, right-click the graph or chart and select Properties from the shortcut menu to display the Graph Properties dialog box or Chart Properties dialog box. Note The Auto Adjust Scales option does not apply to the Compass Plot, Error Bar Plot, Feather Plot, XY Plot Matrix, or the 3D graphs. If you disable this behavior, the scales might clip or overlap each other. To disable this behavior so the plot area size stays fixed, right-click the graph or chart and select Advanced✺uto Adjust Scales from the shortcut menu.
When a graph or chart scale resizes, other elements on the graph or chart move and resize. Right-click the plot image in the plot legend and select Color from the shortcut menu to change the color of plots. If you want to include the hidden plots when you autoscale, make the hidden plots transparent instead. Note LabVIEW does not include hidden plots when you autoscale the axes of a graph or chart. Use the Operating tool or the Labeling tool to change the horizontal or vertical scale directly. Note For the Compass Plot, Error Bar Plot, Feather Plot, and XY Plot Matrix, select Autoscale X or Autoscale Y from the shortcut menu. Right-click the graph or chart and select X Scale✺utoScale X or Y Scale✺utoScale Y from the shortcut menu to turn autoscaling on or off. However, autoscaling can slow performance. By default, autoscaling is enabled for graphs and charts. AutoscalingĪll graphs and charts, except for the 3D graphs, automatically enable autoscaling, which means they adjust their horizontal and vertical scales to fit the data you wire to them. Mixed signal graphs and all charts support only multiple y-scales. You can add multiple x- and y- scales to waveform, XY, intensity, and digital waveform graphs. Right-click the plot in the plot legend and select the scale to associate with the plot from the X scale or Y scale shortcut menus. Right-click the scale of the graph or chart and select Duplicate Scale from the shortcut menu to add multiple scales to the graph or chart. Use multiple scales on a graph or chart to display multiple plots that do not share a common x- or y-scale. However, some options are available only for a specific type of graph or chart. Although graphs and charts plot data differently, they have several common options that you access from the shortcut menu.
Each graph and chart includes many options that you can use to customize appearance, convey more information, or highlight data.