Axes Settings

The axes settings can be changed on the Axis Properties dialog. To access the dialog either:

• Select the menu item Axes | Properties from the menu bar or from the menus shown on right-clicking on a graph.
• Click on the axes toolbar button:
• For 2D plots, double click on an axis.

On the 'Axis Settings' tab, the axis type, visibility, title, scaling, and limits can all be set:

Notes:

• If the axis scaling is set to log users will need to provide an non-zero positive minimum.

On the 'Ticks' tab, the tick spacing, the number of minor ticks and the appearance of the ticks can be set:

Notes:

• If the major tick spacing will give either an excessive number of ticks or less than two ticks, the spacing value will be overridden.
• The maximum number of minor ticks is 9.
• Major tick spacing will update automatically such that there are always at least two major ticks or no more than ten major ticks at once for a given axis.

On the 'Tick Labels' tab the tick label font and style can be set:

Notes:

• By checking the 'Apply to all axes' box, the font and tick label style can be set the same for all the axes.
• The choices for the tick label style are:
  • Default: the plot library will choose either decimal or scientific style, depending on the data values.
  • Decimal: e.g. 12345.678
  • Scientific e.g. 1.2345e4
  • Engineering e.g. 12.345e3 (the exponent will be in multiples of 3).