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GGU-TIMESET: "Preferences" menu item
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GGU-TIMESET: "Preferences" menu item

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Last updated: Jan. 17, 2025

After selecting this menu item a dialog box appears, in which you can edit preferences for graphical presentation.

  • "Graph presentation" group box:
    By activating the appropriate check boxes the measured data can be visualised as a time-settlement graph, provided with markers at given intervals or directly attached to the measured data. The marker size is user-defined. If "Graphs with markers" is activated the spacing can be altered by changing the value of "x =".

    Each time-settlement graph uses a different marker, thus ensuring simple differentiation between several time-settlement graphs, even on monochrome printouts. This also allows easier allocation of several time-settlement graphs to the data in the diagram table. Simply include the time-settlement graph signature in the diagram table (see menu item "Output preferences/Texts + Table", "Edit texts and allocations" button).

  • "Smoothing out method" group box
    You can select from four smoothing out methods: A message box provides information on the type of smoothing:

No smoothing = no smoothing
Method 1 = strict Bezier spline
Method 2 = "loose" Bezier spline
Method 3 = rational spline interpolation

Very rounded graphs are generated using smoothing out methods 2 and 3. Deviations between the measured data and the time-settlement graphs are visible when the measured test data is marked.

For method 3, smoothing can be influenced with the "Control parameter". The value of the control parameter may only be in the range between > -1.0 and < 1000.

  • "Axes divisions" group box
    A linear, logarithmic or a root scale can be selected for visualisation of the graph's time axis.

  • "User-defined axes" button
    The program automatically selects a sensible axes scale for the graphical visualisation of the time-settlement graphs . If the "User-defined axes" button is clicked a dialog box opens in which the check box "Use the following axes values" must be activated. The required minimum and maximum values for time and settlement can then be entered.