Hello Ioan,



To be or not to be: that is the question

I found Maple XY plot very interesting on some aspect.
About traces colors not sure . I don't use Maple 2D plot
anymore because it does not save plot settings.
Your truss is made of lines, is it ? Could you make it
as XY vector therefore in unique color at will as you can
blind the unwanted color [black is not available in Smath].
Another option is to spool to file and recall as image,
then slide in the live results. Recall from file as image
will plot all gray scale .

Jean

Since is not implemented in the region a way to choose the color my suggestion is to take advantage from the looping colors. Make a function with 7 arguments (1 for each standard color), in each one you can pass a list of items that you want to display with the same color. In the function store the nth element of the kth argument input in a 7*n+k place of an output system. If needed you can set the zero elements of the output system to a "far far away" point; in another function's argument you can pass the strings, or you can process more the output later in the worksheet.

Edited by user 24 February 2016 00:26:47(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm interested in your ideea on transforming all idividual lines in one vector.

I didn;t visit other suggestions. I will try some of the "Matrix Treasury" to
"Unest". For indivudual color, you must keep them nested. I was more intereted
to prove the calculations update in an image. Each "T" in this example, you can
have them in all an any color from the X_Y plot. Download "ColorPic" [freeware]
then collect the RGB for quick back access.





If you want more than the truss # and its value, you will have to experiment
Davide suggestion.

Jean

... so, you can have the "truss valued" in image of same color as the diagram color.
You just need to save the colored image of the X_Y plot...

Jean

Good

Here a possible version of the function. I've found a bug in SMath (SS-2297), therefore I have introduced a offset parameter inside the function to move away the null values.

XYPlotGroupByColors.sm (32kb) downloaded 113 time(s).

Edited by user 24 February 2016 03:20:31(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

ioan92, I'm away from my computer. I'll answer later.

Ioan,

The members of the truss were not in order. I have simply
ordered in trigonometric rotation, X_Y plot for any color
of your choice and line thickness .. very nice "à la carte".
Your nesting was very wise to work member by member, then
exploded in XY and scaled to render X_Y plot.
From there on: easy to rotate as per previous discussion.
Less than 1 minute to install the rotation.

Cheers, was very educative

Jean

Ioan Truss X_Y Plot.sm (13kb) downloaded 49 time(s).

LOL. I needed my daughter's help to translate that.

I think that now there is not a bug, but there is an absence of a Null command, or interpreting an empty string or something similar as Null to separate lines in a graph. The Null command works as the equivalent of raising your hand in a drawing in Mathcad and Matlab and continuing the line at the next point.

In this post Friedel shows how to make monocolor a set of 2D draws: https://en.smath.com/for...D-Vector-Field-plot.aspx

Personally, I am convinced that the best plugins for plotting in SMath today are the default 2D plot and "MSChart" by Viacheslav, but I don't very well how to use it.



The label added editing the data under "Series/Data" menu of the plugin was lost in the saving process. I don't know how to pass to the plugin text, but it is under develop and I understand that it is in the first stages. My personal opinion is that it's the better choice for make plots in SMath, because one of the other huge advantage of MSChart is that the user makes sure that they will always be able to export the data from SMath to Excel or any other Office program and get exactly the same chart as inside SMath.

XYPlotGroupByColors Using MSChart.sm (37kb) downloaded 14 time(s).

Best regards.
Alvaro.

This also works

...

I confused X-Y plot with the built in 2D plot.

What I am looking for is a way to oraganize the colors of this truss. I want the truss in one color, the applied forces in a second color, and the reactions in a third color. Preferably I could also decide which colors to use.

Is that even possible with the built in 2D plot?

Best regards,