Sort By: Sorting Data Points in Composite Plots

Sort By: Sorting data points in Composite plots

In the examples above nodes along the workpiece edge were selected carefully, and in order, by screen picking. This can be time-consuming so an alternative is to select by area and then to sort by some criterion. The example below shows what may happen, and how to correct it.

Screen-picking nodes by area

Sure enough, some of the nodes are not ordered in ascending X coordinate, giving a muddled plot.

By default no sorting takes place, but you can sort by any of the options in this menu.

In this case sorting by CX_COORD , the current X coordinate, will work for the plot above, and the plot below shows how this corrects the image.

Note that:

The current Sort by option remains current until changed. Any data subsequently extracted will be sorted in this way.

You can resort data currently cached in backing store at any time

After sorting by Current X coordinate the points are back in a sensible order.