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DS_1002491213-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
November 22, 2021
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Add Grid to a plot

I've imported a MathCAD 15 document into PTC Mathcad Prime 7.   I want to add grids to the plots.  I don't know how.  The documentation doesn't match what I see in PTC Mathcad Prime 7.   Not sure what to do.

DJNewman
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19-Tanzanite
November 22, 2021

PTC Mathcad Prime 7 has two ways of making plots. One is the "quick" way of the Plots tab, and the other is the more-controlled, detailed Chart Component found in the Math tab.

You'll want to convert your Mathcad 15 plot to a Chart Component plot in Mathcad Prime 7 to show/hide and add gridlines. See this part of the documentation:

https://support.ptc.com/help/mathcad/r7.0/en/index.html#page/PTC_Mathcad_Help/to_show_hide_gridlines_in_chart.html

 

I hope that helps!

PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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DJNewman
DJNewman19-TanzaniteAnswer
19-Tanzanite
November 22, 2021

PTC Mathcad Prime 7 has two ways of making plots. One is the "quick" way of the Plots tab, and the other is the more-controlled, detailed Chart Component found in the Math tab.

You'll want to convert your Mathcad 15 plot to a Chart Component plot in Mathcad Prime 7 to show/hide and add gridlines. See this part of the documentation:

https://support.ptc.com/help/mathcad/r7.0/en/index.html#page/PTC_Mathcad_Help/to_show_hide_gridlines_in_chart.html

 

I hope that helps!

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PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
    DS_1002491213-AquamarineAuthor
    13-Aquamarine
    November 23, 2021

    That's what I did - I created a Chart Component and manually recreated the graph in a Chart Component.  

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    Werner_E
    Werner_E25-Diamond I
    25-Diamond I
    November 22, 2021

    Primes native plots miss a lot of things which are often asked for in this forum. Instead of improving its plot functionality PTC decided to integrate a third party chart component, the usage of which DJNewman is suggesting. Unfortunately the integration was done rather badly, the component is slow and inconvenient to handle, does not support units (!!) and is quite unusable if you are working with a small screen but high resolution (4K display on a notebook) because the component does not scale accordingly.

    But, alas, this component offers some of the missing features like gridlines, secondary y-axis, labels and more - fairly basic "features" for a plot component. So you may give it a try to see if its a solution for you.

     

    In the times where this chart component was not yet integrated me and others created workarounds for adding grids to Primes plots by adding the grid as an additional trace. One example can be found here:

    https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/In-MCD-Prime-4-0-is-there-any-way-to-add-gridlines-to-plots/m-p/86492/highlight/true#M34243

     

    LucMeekes also posted solutions which will even work in the Express version (where no programming is allowed).

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      DS_1002491213-AquamarineAuthor
      13-Aquamarine
      November 23, 2021

      @Werner_E  -  It just happens that I have large 4k monitors for my Desktop.  I'll have to see how the Chart Component looks on my MacBook (I run Parallels).

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      Werner_E
      Werner_E25-Diamond I
      25-Diamond I
      November 23, 2021

      Just give the chart component a try and tell us what you think about it.

      I was talking about a 15,6" 4K display using the recommended Windows scale factor 250%. Current software normally automatically takes care of that, older software usually can be made better usable by changing their "High DPI setting". But Primes chart component seems to ignore all of this and is completely unimpressed by it all. So font size, line width etc. are far too small in those charts and the component is (to stay polite) hard and difficult to handle.

       

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