Viewing a Time History Chart

If you have saved Time Histories for an output, you can display a Time History chart by right-clicking on the output (in a browser or the output interface), or the element (if the output is the element's primary output) and selecting Time History Result… from the context menu. By default, a chart will be displayed.

Note: When viewing a Time History Result element, the element “remembers” the last type of view that was displayed, and displays that view when you double-click on it.

Note: Time history results for simulations with multiple realizations can only be displayed for outputs that are referenced by Time History Result elements.

If you are viewing a table rather than a chart, you can view a chart by pressing the Chart button at the top of the display.

The Time History Chart has a variety of buttons and controls at the top of the window. Some items are always present, while others are only shown under certain circumstances (e.g., when viewing multiple realizations and/or multiple outputs).

Display Table: Selecting this button switches to a Time History Table view of the result. Note that when viewing a table, the Display Table button appears selected; when viewing a chart, the Display Chart button appears selected.

Edit Chart Style: This button provides access to a dialog for editing the chart style.

In some situations, you may want to zoom in on a portion of a chart that is of particular interest. You can, of course, edit the style of the chart and change the range of the axes which are displayed. GoldSim also provides a keyboard short-cut to support this.

Condition outputs are either True or False and are typically used as state variables or flags in a simulation. As a result, in some situations, you may want to save and plot time histories of conditions. To facilitate this, when plotting a time history of a condition, GoldSim plots True as 1 and False as 0.

Like all result charts, you can also control various attributes of the chart via a context menu. This includes the ability to turn on and off a legend. The legend uses the Label for the result defined in the Result Properties page. When viewing multiple results on one chart, you will always want to display the legend.

You can control the number of significant figures displayed in result displays from the Results tab of the Options dialog (accessed via Model |Options… from the main menu).

You can copy the chart to the clipboard by right-clicking in the chart, and selecting Copy from the context menu. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+C while viewing the chart. To export a chart, right-click in the chart, and select Export… from the context menu.

Note: When viewing time history results from a SubModel within the parent model, the Chart display is modified somewhat, and in some cases provides slightly different options.