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Make number of plots <=5000, you can see the line style.
If 50000> you can see another change.
Primes native plots suffer from three built-in limits which are per-trace limits.
0) Up to 5000 points you have full formatting options available
1) For traces with more than 5000 points you can't chose a symbol other than the dot and no lin style other than full line. And you will not be allowed to combine he two (plotting the points and connecting them. So you only have the choice between either the full line or plotting only dots (which usually looks like a continuous trace by using that many points).
2) For traces with more than 50000 points you additionally lose the option to set the lin width and you can't chose any symbol at all. Line style is full and line width is very small and nothing but the color can be changed
3) Prime refuses to plot traces with more than 2000000 points.
The help only mentions the third and first limits in passing and succinctly explains that the full formatting options are only available up to 5000 points. -> To Change the Number of Plotted Points
So carefully choose your range variable used for plotting. Usually 1000 points are more than enough.
In the attached sheet you can test the behaviour when the number of points per trace exceeds the various limits.
I don't understand your question.
In your sheet Q actually IS defined as variable (you assigned it the value 0.2) and of course the plots will change accordingly if you change that value.
Using a global definition as suggested by ttokoro only has the effect that you could define Q even below the chart. And if, as you asked, Q is the result of calculations, then ALL 'variables' involved in those calculations would have to be defined globally as well.
Personally I try to avoid global definitions whenever possible because I have found that they often cause more problems than they solve. This is especially true since the way global definitions work in Prime has been changed compared to Mathcad.
According your chart you could spare some work because X1 to X5 refer to the very same range:
You could define a vector of Q-values but you still would have to define the correct number of Y's (the number of Y's in the chart component can be lower than the number of entries in the Q-vector, but not larger).
But at least you won't have to edit the chart component's input area if you want to see different Q values - you just change the values the Q vector. You may add numbers in the vector of Q values, but the chart still will show just the first five traces.
There is an approach where you also can change the number of Q-values and the plot acts accordingly. This is the so called waterfall plot where you create a matrix of M-values for the y-axis, Each column represents one trace. The drawback here is that its considered just one trace and so all curves would share the same color:
The Chart component is able to handle this as well, just use
To get the curves plotted in different colors you would again have to define separate traces and you will have to add traces if you add entries in the vector of Q values.
Just for fun I added the peak positions.
Here a plot with 80 different Q-values in the range from 0.05 to 4
Prime 10 sheet attached
P.S.: We are far away from the original question and the thread title now. I'd suggest that for follow up questions you use a new thread. This also would attract a larger audience and could result in a wider range of different answers.
