XPAC Reference Guide

Formatting chart elements with the Chart Designer

Formatting chart elements with the Chart Designer

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Formatting chart elements with the Chart Designer

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You can format any chart element by changing settings in the Chart Designer window. You can display the Chart Designer window by double-clicking the appropriate chart element, or selecting Chart Designer from the right-click context menu.

XPAC will display the Chart Designer. The menu on the left gives you a number of formatting options.

Item

Available tabs

Actions

Chart

Type
Backdrop
Picture

Change the chart type (there are several options for 2D and 3D). Set the layout, format the fill, frame, and shadow displayed in the chart backdrop. Set a background picture for the chart.

Title

Location
Backdrop
Picture
Layout
Text
Font

Format the title backdrop and font, edit the title text, and control the display of the title and its location.

Footnote

Location
Backdrop
Picture
Layout
Text
Font

Format the footnote backdrop and font, edit the footnote text, control the display of the footnote and its location.

Legend

Location
Backdrop
Picture
Font

Format the legend backdrop, change the font used to display the legend text, and control the legend location.

Plot

Position
3D View
3D Lighting
Base
Walls
Backdrop
Picture
Other

Set the chart position and shape, control 3D formatting and lighting, format the plot backdrop and picture and set chart-type specific options.

Category or
Value

Category Scale/Value Scale
Scale Type (Value only)
Pens

Change the scale for the category or values selected and format the axis and grid pens.
 
For a value axis, you can also change the scale type.

Axis Title
(Expand Category and Value options)

Backdrop
Picture
Layout
Text
Font

Format the axis title backdrop, font and picture, edit the axis title text , control the display of the axis title and location.
 
You can find axis title options under each of the Category (X) Axis, Value (Y) Axis, Value (2nd Y) Axis and Category (Z) Axis headings.

Axis Labels
(Expand Category and Value options)

Display
Format
Backdrop
Picture
Layout
Font

Format the axis label backdrops, fonts and picture, edit axis label text , control the display of the axis labels and their location.
 
You can find axis label options under each of the Category (X) Axis, Value (Y) Axis, Value (2nd Y) Axis and Category (Z) Axis headings.

Series

Series Type
Order
Options
Lines
Guidelines

Control the display of series, stack and unstack series, plot a series on a secondary axis, format series appearance such as bar shape, line style, markers, and fill colours.
 
XPAC displays each series as a sub-menu option. Expand the series to display the Options, Lines and Guidelines tabs, where you can set series smoothing, and format statistics lines and guidelines.
 
Further expand the series to access datapoints and datapoint labels.

Datapoint
(Available under each series' sub-menu)

Fill
Markers
Picture

Format the fill and marker for all data points in a series.
 
Expand and select each individual data point to format data points separately. You can return any individual datapoints you edit to the series default from the Defaults tab.

Datapoint Labels

Appearance
Value Format
Percent Format
Backdrop
Picture
Layout
Font

Control the type and location of the labels for all datapoints in the series. Format the font and layout of the label text for all datapoints in the series and format the label backdrop for all datapoints in the series.
 
Expand and select each individual datapoint to format datapoint labels separately. You can return any individual datapoint labels you edit to the series default from the Defaults tab.

Series Labels

Note: Displays datapoint label tabs that are common to all selected items.

Generally unavailable. Series Labels requires the labels to be exactly the same, and come from the same source. It is not enough that both labels are "Total <x> Tonnage", for instance; XPAC must have taken the label values from exactly the same column or row in your model.
 
Where this is the case, Series Labels provides the same functionality as Datapoint Labels, only as applied to all series that share common labels. For example, if you had two series with the same labels, you could use this option to edit both series' labels at once, rather than having to edit the two series individually using the Datapoint Labels option.