Creating Chart Styles

GoldSim has powerful charting capabilities that allow you to customize the appearance of each chart (e.g., by adding headers and footers, changing axes scales and labels, etc.).

In some cases, after modifying the appearance of a chart, you may want to save the particular set of properties you have created (e.g., label fonts, header, footer) so that you can apply them to another chart. To facilitate this, GoldSim allows you to save the set of properties as a named chart style A collection of settings for a particular type of result display chart.. The named chart style is saved as part of the model file, and can subsequently be applied to other results in your model. You can also export and import chart styles between models.

In order to facilitate the use of a single chart style for multiple results, GoldSim allows you to use keywords Text delimited by the % symbol (e.g., %x_unit%) that can be used when creating chart styles to insert context sensitive text (e.g., for axis labels). (delimited by the % symbol) when you create and use chart styles. For example, you could define a chart style in which the header was %rname%. This particular keyword inserts the name of the Result element you are displaying. Similarly, the keyword %curdate% inserts the current date.

When you view a result, it will initially take on a set of characteristics defined by the default chart style for that particular type of chart (e.g., time history, distribution, etc.). GoldSim automatically provides a set of default chart styles for all chart types (that utilize the keywords). If desired, however, for any type of chart, you can specify one of your own custom chart styles as the default chart.