These commands are not available in any menu or by using any keyboard shortcut. However, they can be accessed through the 3D toolbar.
3.14.1
Frame
This command can be accessed by a click on the Draws only the three axes on the active 3D plot.
3.14.2
Box
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws the three axes on the active 3D plot, and a box around it.
3.14.3
No axes
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Doesn’t draw the three axes nor the box on the active 3D plot.
3.14.4
Front Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws a grid on the front panel of the active 3D plot. The position of this grid is on the plane defined by y=ymin.
3.14.5
Back Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws a grid on the back panel of the active 3D plot. The position of this grid is on the plane defined by y=ymax.
3.14.6
Left Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws a grid on the left panel of the active 3D plot. The position of this grid is on the plane defined by x=xmin.
3.14.7
Right Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
3.14.8
Ceiling Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws a grid on the top panel of the active 3D plot. The position of this grid is on the plane defined by z=zmax.
3.14.9
Floor Grid
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Draws a grid on the floor panel of the active 3D plot. The position of this grid is on the plane defined by z=zmin.
3.14.10
Enable perspective
This command can be accessed by a click on the Enables/Disables 3D perspective mode.
3.14.11
Reset rotation
This command can be accessed by a click on the Resets the rotation of the 3D plot to the default value.
3.14.12
Fit frame to window
This command can be accessed by a click on the
Finds the best layout of the 3D plot to fit the window size. It readjusts the length of the axis ticks to a default value.
3.14.13
Bars Style
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a3D histogram, this command permits modification of the style used to draw the bars.
3.14.14
Dots
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a3D scatter, this command permits modification of the style used to draw data points as dots.
3.14.15
Cones
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a3D scatter, this command permits modification of the style used to draw data points as cones. It it then possible to modify the drawing parameters of the cones by double clicking on the plotting area.
3.14.16
Cross Hairs
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a3D scatter, this command permits modification of the style used to draw data points as cross-hairs. It it then possible to modify the drawing parameters of the crosses by double clicking on the plotting area.
3.14.17
3D Wire Frame
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to modify the style of the surface to be drawn as a simple wireframe.
3.14.18
3D Hidden Lines
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to modify the style of the surface to be drawn as a wireframe. A computation of hidden lines is performed.
3.14.19
3D Polygons
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to modify the style of the surface to be drawn as polygons.
3.14.20
3D Wire Surface
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to modify the style of the surface to be drawn as polygons with a mesh.
3.14.21
Floor Data Projection
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to add a filled area projection of the surface on the floor of the plot.
3.14.22
Floor Isolines
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to add an isoline.
3.14.23
Empty Floor
This command can be accessed by a click on the
If the active 3D plot is a 3D surface, this command is used to remove any projection from the floor.
3.14.24
Animation
This command can be accessed by a click on the Enables/disables animation.
Chapter 4
The Toolbars
Groups of related commands are collected together in a number of toolbars. All toolbars can be moved and docked in a more convenient location (left, right or bottom sides of the application window) or moved onto the desktop (outside the main window) using drag-and-drop, using their left side handle. Toolbars are automatically enabled/disabled depending on the currently active window. For example, if the current window is a table, the Table toolbar will be enabled and all the other toolbars will be automatically disabled.
The same approach is used for showing/hiding toolbars: if there are no visible tables in the workspace, the Table toolbar will be automatically hidden. It will be shown again when the user adds a new table into the project. Toolbars can also be manually shown/hidden at any time by right-clicking on the Toolbars... command from theView menuor entering Ctrl-Shift-T and then checking/unchecking the corresponding item in the pop-up menu.
Visible toolbars will be shown in one of two possible formats depending upon the space available at the docking location. By default, when there is sufficient room, all tool icons will be shown in a single row or column. If there is not sufficient room to show all icons in one row, the toolbar will be collapsed to the extent necessary to fit the toolbar into the available space. In this case, the ">>" symbol will be shown to indicate that there are hidden command icons. As long as the toolbar is not disabled, left clicking on the ">>" symbol will temporarily expand the toolbar and show the hidden commands, which may then be left clicked to execute them. Moving the mouse pointer off of the toolbar will automatically collapse it. Note that toolbars located on the desktop are always shown expanded.
4.1
The Edit Toolbar
Figure 4.1: The QtiPlot Edit Toolbar