Curve fit options are Linear, Scatter, Spline, and Least Squares. Linear is the default and will connect adjacent points with a linear line between the two. Scatter does not put any line on the plot at all but leaves just the points. Spline will connect the points with a curved and continuous line. This results in a smooth line with no abrupt changes is direction. Least Squares will do a least squares fit through all points to create one linear best fit line.

Curves can be solid, dotted, dashed, or dot-dashed.

This toggle turns ON or OFF the display of symbols. The symbol used is the default symbol of the XY Plot application (a yellow round dot).

This toggle will display the X- or Y-axis label if ON.

This databox allows for specification of the X- and Y- axis label.

The X- and Y-axis scales can be set to linear or log with this switch.

This button brings up a subordinate form to change the label style of numerical text such as the numbers on the X- and Y-axes. The numerical format can be changed to integer, fixed, or exponential with specifications of color, size, and significant digits.

A XY Window name must be supplied in order to create a graph. This will be the name of the separate graphical viewport for the graph that will appear on creation. Care should be taken when creating multiple graphs not to become confused. Even though you can save a graph plot with at specific name, (see Plot Options, 10), multiple plots can reference the same XY window. Multiple plots will therefore appear in the same XY window even though they are actually separate Graph plot tools. The default XY window name is Results Graph.

If this toggle is ON, then additional curves that may be created in the same XY Window and associated to the same Graph plot as opposed to being overwritten. For instance, you may put up a transient displacement plot of Node 101 and then decide it would be nice to overlay the same results from Node 345 in the same plot. However, care should be taken in that multiple graph plots can reference the same XY window and multiple curves in the same XY window of different data and magnitude can significantly change the axis scales and make plots unreadable.