Graphical
This tab will display a graph for a chosen set of parameters for selected
zones and surfaces at each hour over a defined period. For more details
on how to edit the graphical display, see the Graphs
and Tables topic.
You will be able to change the display options for the graph by right-clicking
anywhere on the graph to open a context menu. Choose from the options
described below.
Right-Click Menu
- Customise Axes - opens the Customise Axes dialog box to allow you
to manually input the minimum and maximum values for the y-axis by
clearing the "Autosize" checkbox, and then overwrite the
existing values.
- Drawing Mode - point to this option to choose how the graph will
be drawn.
- Always use styles (slowest) - always draw graph with marker
symbols added at hourly intervals.
- Use styles up to threshold - draw graph using marker symbols
when the number of data points is below the set threshold. No
marker symbols will be used when the number of data points is
above the set threshold.
- Always simplified (fastest) - draws the graph without marker
symbols at hourly intervals, suitable when plotting a large dataset.
- Set Threshold - opens the Set Threshold dialog to allow you
to enter the number of data points beyond which marker symbols
will not be added to the graph.
- X-Axis Style - point to this option to select a format to use for
the x-axis labelling.
- Absolute Hour - the x-axis will be labelled 1, 2, 3, ..., 22,
23, 24, representing hours of the day.
- Day-Hour - the x-axis will be labelled 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, ...,
1-22, 1-23, 1-24, the number before the dash (-) representing
days of the year (from 1 to 365), the number after the dash representing
hours of the day.
- Date Time - the x-axis will be labelled day/month
hh:mm, for example 1/2 08:00 will represent the 1st of
February at 8am, which will be day 32.
- Y-Axis Text Orientation - point to this option to select an orientation
for the numbers printed along the y-axis.
- Horizontal - numbers printed next to the tick marks that are
plotted at hourly intervals along the y-axis will be positioned
horizontally.
- Vertical - numbers printed next to the tick marks that are
plotted at hourly intervals along the y-axis will be positioned
vertically.
- Y-Axis Label Location - point to this option to choose where the
y-axis label will be placed.
- Side - the measurement units, e.g. deg. C, will be positioned
half way up the y-axis.
- Top - the measurement units will be positioned at the very
top of the y-axis.
- Font Size
- Large - the largest available font size.
- Medium - the font size can be increased or decreased by one
step.
- Small - the smallest available font size.
- Maximize - fully enlarge the graph area to fill the whole screen
(press Esc on your keyboard to exit this mode).
- Export Dialog - opens the "Exporting Temperatures and Loads"
dialog box with the following options:
- Export - choose which image file format to create
- EMF - exports graphical data to the Enhanced Metafile file
format.
- WMF - exports graphical data to the Windows Metafile file
format.
- BMP - exports graphical data to the bitmap image
file format.
- JPG - exports graphical data to the JPEG (Joint Photographic
Expert Group) file format.
- PNG - exports graphical data to the Portable Network Graphics
file format.
- Text/Data - exports numerical data to tabular format, select
zone data to output and choose which hours.
- Export Destination
- Clipboard - copy data to the clipboard, and then manually
paste either the graphical or numerical data, depending on
what you've copied, to another program, e.g. Word, Notepad,
Paint.
- File - choose a file location and name to save the data.
- Printer - send the data directly to print.
- Export Size - select from a few sizing options, which will
depend on the file format you've chosen to use.
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