Often, after modifying the appearance of a chart, it is very useful 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 chart style consists of all of the chart properties that you specify in the Chart Style dialog.
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.
Note: Unlike the other
attributes of a chart (e.g., axes labels, headers, legends), the manner in which
the data itself is shown in the chart is not a property of the chart itself (and
hence is not edited in the Chart Style dialog and is not saved in
a chart style.)
Whenever 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 provides five "built-in" chart styles:
•Basic Time History Style
•Basic Distribution Result Style
•Basic Final Value Result Style
•Basic Multi-Variate Style
•Basic Array View Style
Initially, the five "built-in" styles are defined as the default chart styles for each type of plot. For any type of chart, you can specify one of your own custom chart styles as the default chart style for all subsequent results that are displayed.
The topics below discuss how to create and use chart styles in GoldSim.
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