Grapher 4.0

Introduction to Grapher

Welcome to Grapher, the easy to use technical graphing package for scientists,

engineers, business professionals, or anyone who needs to generate graphs quickly and

easily.

Grapher is a sophisticated graphing program that transforms your data into any graph

type you desire. Grapher creates over 50 different graph types, including 2D and 3D line,

scatter, step, and function plots; bar, floating bar, and histogram charts; pie charts, polar

plots, ternary diagrams, stiff plots, hi-low-close plots, box and whisker plots, and many

other plot types. Combine plot types to reveal information about your data. Add fit curves,

confidence intervals, or display statistical information for your data. Grapher allows you

to produce the finest publication quality graphs available.

Creating graphs is as easy as choosing the graph type, selecting the data file, and clicking

the Open button. Grapher automatically selects reasonable default settings for each new

graph. Changing the default settings for all future graphs is easy, allowing you to make

the graph you want the first time, every time. All graphs allow quick and easy

customization of all graph, axis, and plot settings. For example, you can change tick mark

spacing, tick labels, axis title, axis length, grid lines, line colors, symbol styles, fill

opacity, and more. You can add legends, images, fit curves, and drawing objects to the

graph. You can import title blocks and company logos to create the final graph right in

Grapher. To apply the same custom settings to several graphs, you can create a Grapher

template containing the preferred styles. Once the graph is complete, you can export it in

a variety of formats for use in all your presentations and publications.

The Scripter program, included with Grapher, is useful for creating, editing, and

running script files that automate Grapher procedures. By writing and running script

files, simple mundane tasks or complex system integration tasks can be performed

precisely and repetitively without direct interaction. Grapher also supports Active X

automation using any compatible client, such as Visual BASIC. These two automation

capabilities allow Grapher to be used as a graph program for all your scientific,

engineering, or business needs.

The script recorder records all commands as you make them in Grapher. When the script

is run, Grapher performs the steps for you. This is ideal for users that need to perform

repetitive tasks but are unfamiliar with automation, for advanced users who do not want

to manually enter all of the syntax, or for average users having difficulty with syntax.

Installation Directions

Installing Grapher 4 requires logging onto the computer with an account that has

Administrator rights. Golden Software does not recommend installing Grapher 4 over

any previous version of Grapher. Grapher 4 can coexist with older versions (i.e.

Grapher 3) as long as they are installed in different directories, which is the default.

To install Grapher

There are eight files in the Grapher 4.0 folder.

Double-click the Grapher 4.msi file to begin the installation process.

Click Next

Choose I accept, then click Next.

Enter your information, and click Next.

Click Next to install to this folder, or click Change to install to a different folder.

Choose the setup type that best suits your needs. (I suggest you to install the complete

type.) Click the Next button.

Click Install to begin the installation.

Click Finish to exit the installation.

Start the Grapher 4.

If this is the first time that you have opened Grapher, you will be prompted for your

serial number.

Double-click the KEYGEN.EXE file, it will create a serial number.

Enter the serial number into the Serial Number dialog, then click Next(下一步).

Choose Register now, and click Finish(完成), and Exit the Keygen.

Using Grapher

Creating a Excel file

Open the measurement data, and we should create new data files. We only need the

Region Location Difference value column.

Click the File | New command, choose the Excel Worksheet, then you can create a new

excel file.

Enter the data into the excel, each excel file only has one line data.

For example, in Region 1, we measurement 10 lines, and each line have 10 points (the

total point of Region 1 is 100), we should create 10 excel files.

We enter 1 into the column A, the is the line number (A=line), and enter 1-10 into the

Column B (B=point), then enter the difference value into the Column C. For the

difference value, we only enter the data without negative sign(-).

When you have completed entering all the point data of line 1, the data can be saved.

Click the File | Save as command.

In the Save As dialog, specify a Save in location, a File name, and choose Excel Files

(*.xls) for the Save as type. Click the Save button to save the completed excel file. Here

we enter line 1 as file name.

Each file only has one line data, many excel files should be created. Repeat above steps,

until create all the excel files.

Remarks: you can also create the excel files with Microsoft office excel.

Creating a Graph

To create a line/scatter graph:

Click the Graph | 2D XY Graphs | Line/Scatter command, you can select the file in the

file list section or in the Open worksheets section at the bottom of the dialog. Once the

file is selected, click Open(打开).

A line/scatter plot is created using the default properties. By default, Grapher uses the

first two columns containing numeric or date/time data in the data file. So, X is column A

and Y is column B.

For our requested line/scatter graphs, X is the point(Column B), Y is the data(Column C).

So, we should change the worksheet columns.

Choose the symbol frequency at the right bottom of the dialog. By default, the frequency

is 0, we increase it to 1.

Click the at the right side of Frequency, in the Symbol dialog, specify the Symbol

Properties: shape, color and size, click the Yes(确定) button.

If you have completed all the settings, click YES(确定), the line graph was created in the

plot window.

From the line graph, we can find that the curve crest is the anomalous area.

Because we should create many line graphs, so we need mark the graphs to distinguish

them.

Click on the left side, and click on the blank area above the picture, enter the

remarks, click OK.

Then click , choose the graph and remove it to the blank area, and create another line

graph in the plot window.

If you completed all the graphs, click the File | Save as command.

In the Save As dialog, specify a Save in location, a File name, and choose Grapher Files

(*.grf) for the Save as type. Click the Save(保存) button to save the completed grapher

file. Here we enter Area 1 as file name.