Axis grid palette

Tool: Axis Grid

You can use the two tabs in the Axis Grid palette to define the format properties, geometry, and label of the axis grid.

Axes tab

Rotation angle

Enter the rotation angle of the entire grid. The horizontal label will also be placed at this angle. The position of the label depends on the settings in the Options - Text.

Format

Define the Layer of all elements of the axis grid and the display parameters (Pen, Line, Color) of the axes in the xy plane.
When you turn off the Representation - same for all axes option, you can define different parameters for the two axis directions.

x-direction, y-direction

Number, distances

Define the number and spacings of the axes in the xy plane.

Use semicolons to separate the spacings. Use commas or dots to separate the leading digits from the decimal places.
You can only enter positive values. You can add the unit; this is optional. Basic arithmetic calculations are possible:

For example: Enter 3*2.3; 46dm; 5-3.2; 4 in [m] to generate 7 axes spaced at 2.3 m multiplied by 3, 4.6 m, 1.8 m, and 4.0 m.

Angle

Enter the angle of the axes in the x-direction or y-direction based on the Rotation angle. You can only enter positive values in the first quadrant.
This box is empty if the axes have different angles due to modifications by means of handles.

Projection

Specify the value by which the gridlines project beyond the actual grid itself.
This box is empty if the axes have different projections due to modifications by means of handles.

z-direction

Number, distances

Define the spacings for copying the axes in the xy plane to the z-direction. If you want to create a planar grid in the xy plane, enter 0 for the spacing in the z-direction.

Use semicolons to separate the spacings. Use commas or dots to separate the leading digits from the decimal places.
You can only enter positive values. You can add the unit; this is optional. Basic arithmetic calculations are possible:

For example: Enter 3*2.3; 46dm; 5-3.2; 4 in [m] to generate 7 congruent axis grids spaced at 2.3 m multiplied by 3, 4.6 m, 1.8 m, and 4.0 m in the z-direction.

Display axes

Specify whether you want to create connecting lines between the congruent axis grids. These lines connect the grid nodes in the z-direction.

Label tab

Define parameters for the label of the axis grid. You define the Numbering and its starting value and label, the Orientation, and the Position separately for each axis direction. The settings for Text parameters, Color, Border, and Text offset apply to both directions (if the Representation - same for all axes option is selected).

The label is always horizontal, regardless of the angles of the axes. To place the label at an angle, you must define the rotation angle of the grid.

x-direction, y-direction

Numbering

Specify how you want to number the axes. For better orientation, element info displays the numbering next to the element name.

starts with

This entry depends on the Numbering selected.

• Except for the Custom text, you enter a starting value for the grid labels. For example, enter the value 10.F
  for the format. The first number in each case is always entered by default.
• For Custom text, enter the labels of the gridlines. Use semicolons to separate the labels. If you enter more or fewer labels than gridlines, ALLPLAN automatically corrects the entries. If there is no text between two semicolons, ALLPLAN does not create a label for the corresponding gridline.
  When you switch from default numbering to custom text, ALLPLAN uses the numbering defined until you change it. When you switch from custom text to default numbering, you can see a message telling you that the custom text will be lost.

orientation

Define the direction in which you want to label the axes.

Mark

Specify whether and where you want to label the axes.

Text parameters

Define the parameters for the text in the label.

Color

Select the color of the label. This color is only visible when the Color stands for pen option is turned off in Show/Hide.

Color stands for pen means that the color used to display an element on the screen is associated with (and thus dependent on) its pen thickness. Elements drawn with a certain pen (or pen thickness) always appear on the screen in the same color, regardless of the colors assigned to the individual elements. You can specify which color represents which pen in the Options on the Desktop environment - Pen colors page. You can turn the Color stands for pen option on and off in Show/Hide (How).

Activate Show/Hide in one of the following ways

• Menu bar: View

• Title bar: Quick Access Toolbar View

Border

Specify whether you want to apply a rectangular or circular border around the label.

Text offset

Enter the offset between the label and the gridline.

Attributes

Grid name

You can enter any name for the axis grid here; this name will also be saved in favorites as a property of the grid.

Buttons in the border of the palette

You can find the following tools in the lower border of the palette:

• Load favorite: You can select and load an axis grid favorite file (*.vdfanfx) you have already saved.
• Save as a favorite: You can save the current definitions as an axis grid favorite (*.ansfnfx).
• Restore basic settings: You can restore the default settings.