Handling Plot Items
Operations on plot items that have been added to the plot are described here. See below for further information on additional operations.
- Show/Hide
- Click next to the item’s name in the i Plot Items control set to toggle display/hiding of the item.
- Delete
- Select the item in the plot items list, and press the button or right-click and choose .
- Reorder
- Click the button to the right of the item’s name and move it upward or downward to the desired position.
- Cut
- Select the item on the list, then right-click and choose . This operation puts the cut object on the clipboard, so it is available to paste elsewhere (see note below).
- Copy
- Select the item on the list, then press or right-click and choose .
- Paste
- Perform a copy first, per above. Then press or right-click and choose . If using the right-click, perform the mouse click below the “Legend” plot item if possible; pasting on another listed plot item is not allowed.
- Set Attributes
- Select the plot item on the list. Then either edit the attribute(s) of interest in the “Attributes” section below the list, or right-click and pick . When using the former approach, each attribute change triggers a re-rendering of the plot. In the latter case, the dialog accepts multiple changes and re-rendering does not occur until either or are pressed. In cases where rendering time is significant, this latter approach is probably preferable.
Note
Plot items can be cut-copied-pasted between plots. Cutting, therefore, is a mechanism for moving a plot item from one plot to another.
Complex Plot Item Controls
Nearly all plot items will have an associated cutplane, clipbox, and range. These are all operated via the i Plot Items control set. The controls provide the ability to cut the plot item to “see into” it or to filter the item to a subset of its parts (e.g., a range of zones rather than all the zones in a zone plot item).
Details on usage for each of these is provided in the topic on the i Plot Items control set.
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