X-Axis

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X-Axis

The X-axis is the axis of arguments.

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This topic consists of the following sections.

General X-Axis Settings

Continuous and Discrete X-Axes

General X-Axis Settings

To access X-axis settings, use the X-Axis Settings button in the Diagram section of the Design Ribbon tab (or the img19507 button if you are using the toolbar menu).

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This will invoke the X-Axis Settings dialog.

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This dialog contains the following settings.

Reverse

Allows you to reverse the X-axis. If the X-axis is reversed, its values are ordered from right to left.

Show X-axis

Allows you to hide and show the X-axis.

Show title

Allows you to hide and show the X-axis title. You can choose whether to use the default text or specify a custom string.

Enable zooming

Allows you to enable zooming for the X-axis. The X-axis' scroll bar provides the capability to perform navigation in the zoomed diagram.

Limit visible points

Allows you to limit the number of points displayed on the chart's diagram along the X-axis. The X-axis' scroll bar provides the capability to perform navigation if the number of all points exceeds the number of visible points.

Continuous and Discrete X-Axes

If the dimension in the Arguments section contains numeric data, the Chart can create either a continuous X-axis or a discrete X-axis.

Continuous X-axis

Discrete X-axis

If a continuous axis is used, the distance between argument values is proportional to their values.

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On a discrete axis, all argument values are an equal distance from each other.

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To specify the X-axis type in the Designer, invoke the data item menu for the argument dimension and select the axis type.

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