Selecting a display type
Here are descriptions of the charts available for displaying data during a test run. Select a chart type.
- Strip chart: Plot of one or more channels as a function of time.
- Single channel digital meter: Digital display of a single channel value. Channels may be added to a single channel digital meter. See Multi-channel digital meter for tabular digital display of multiple channels.
- Analog meter: Analog gauge display of a single channel.
- Spectrum chart: Frequency domain spectrum plot of a single channel.
- X-Y plot : Plot of one channel on the Y-axis vs. another channel on the X-axis.
- Min/Max tracking of multi-channel digital meter with alarms: A Min/Max chart is a digital display of minimum, current and maximum data values for each channel. Warning and alarm level exceedance indicators are provided on a per channel basis.
- Interactive trigger chart: Display an interactive trigger channel as an interactive chart.
- Video display: Display of current frame of a single video channel.
See User preferences > Charts to set the appearance of charts.
See Test control > Viewing live data > Managing display views for more information about managing charts in the display view.