Plot Settings

The Plot page of BlockSim's Application Setup contains default settings that will be applied when you create a new plot sheet in BlockSim. Note that some of the configurable settings that are saved with the plot can still be modified from the control panel and others can be modified via the Show/Hide Plot Items window (Plot > Actions > Show/Hide Plot Items).

What's Changed? Starting in Version 2019, several options, including those for setting the numbers in axis labels and showing the user, date and time on plots, are now specified only with the Plot Setup utility.

  • Settings for Plot Sheets
    • Enable auto refresh activates the auto refresh option.
    • Set color limits opens the Set Color Limits window, which allows you to set the color limits used in bar charts. Choose the metric of interest from the Plot Type drop-down list. You can then set both lower and upper color limits by dragging the markers on the scale between 0% and 100%. For example, in a Block Expected Failures plot, the blocks are displayed according to their RS FCI values, so if you wanted to change the default color limits used in that plot, you would choose RS DECI/RS FCI from the Metric drop-down list, then use the sliders to specify the desired color limits. If Show all values (0-100%) in legend is selected, the legend will show the full range of values; if it is not selected, the legend will show only the values between the upper and lower limits that you have specified. The preview shows how the specified settings will appear in the legend.
  • Other Options
    • Enable interactive plot highlights each point, line, slice or bar on the plot when you move the pointer over it. Point coordinates/values will be displayed on highlighted objects. Note that if you change this setting, you must redraw the plot to see the change.
    • Ranking method for event analysis probability plot specifies the ranking method (Median Ranks or Kaplan-Meier) that is used in the flowchart Probability plot.

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