HG Axis LockGuard - permanent axis range lock

Sebastian_Karp
Sebastian_Karp
Altair Employee
edited March 26 in Altair Exchange

Overview

This Extension provides a toolbar with buttons to turn the "Axis LockGuard" ON/OFF (available since HG2023.1).

The TCL commands that are used in the background are:

[::hwplot::GetPlotManagerHandle] SetFitAxesLockGuard true
[::hwplot::GetPlotManagerHandle] SetFitAxesLockGuard false

Pre-Requisite

Download and un-zip attached Extension package.

Add Extension through HW GUI by opening the Extension Manager.

 

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Use "Add Extension" and select the folder where  extension.xml  is located.

Then turn it ON by button.

 

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This will make the toolbar available with buttons for Axis LockGuard ON/OFF.

 

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Usage/Installation Instructions

Top button will turn ON the LockGuard, and the axis ranges for both X/Y axes will be locked and kept, independent of the following action (plot new curve, copy/paste curve, ...).

Bottom button will turn LockGuard OFF and default HG axis range behaviour is used again.

 

 

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Axes ranges stay locked.

 

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