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- ** File: TPPlt_06.hlp
- ** Index: 55
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- ** Content: More plot editing techniques
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- █ Zoom / UnZoom an area of a graph
-
- To zoom an area of a graph, use the
- View | Zoom command. This command expands
- a rectangular area of a plot view and is
- especially useful when you have a plot that
- contains data curves which are so tight
- together such that you can't select them in
- the normal view. Use this command to blow
- up a local area and edit it.
-
- To put the zoomed view back to its
- original size, choose the View | UnZoom
- command. This command reduces a zoomed
- view to its original size.
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- █ Axes Zoom / Axes UnZoom a graph
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- To view a detailed part of a rectangular
- graph, choose the View | Axes Zoom command.
- This command changes the range of the axes.
- You must select a graph before you can
- select this command. This command will
- only change the axes ranges to the
- rectangular region you select. This
- command differs from the Zoom command by
- that it only resizes the axes range, not
- any other plot objects in the selected
- area. The Axes UnZoom command puts the
- axes range of an axes-zoomed graph back to
- its original state.
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- █ Push a plot object to the back
-
- To push a plot object back and forth,
- you choose the View | Push to Back command.
- This command puts the selected plot object
- to the end of the drawing list. The order
- of the Plot View object drawing is the most
- recent active one last. Once an object is
- selected, it becomes the active object. So
- it is at the end of the drawing list. When
- TechPlot checks for a selection, it checks
- through the drawing list from beginning to
- end.
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- This command is very useful when you
- are in the situation that you have several
- objects geometrically contained in a large
- object. If the large object is active,
- then you cannot select those small ones
- inside this large object. So you have to
- push the large object back to be able to
- select the small objects.
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- █ Group / UnGroup plot objects
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- To group a set of plot objects, use the
- Option | Group command. After you select
- this command, use your mouse to drag a
- range that includes all the plot objects
- you want to group. Once plot objects are
- grouped together, you may treat them as one
- object.
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- To ungroup a grouped object, select that
- grouped object first and choose the
- Option | UnGroup command.
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