I've been an Origin user for several years. I'm trying to make multiple plots for which value versus position is plotted over and over for different times. I thought the way to avoid the retrace lines from the last x-point to the first x-point was to include blank lines between the data sets. However, I now have these annoying retrace lines. Please tell me the way to avoid these retrace lines.
It was unchecked. I noticed that when I reduced the number of data sets out of the 7 MB size data file, the problem went away. Now I'm only plotting a few hundred points and the retrace problem is gone.
Now I've rediscovered an old problem whereby a dashed line looks the same as a solid line. They both look the same. I can distinguish them by color but I don't want to rely on this method. I think the trick is that if I export this graphic to something like a PNG file, then the dashed lined will look dashed. I thought this problem was solved long ago.
Could you please try to turn ON the option of "Use Origin Dashes in Page View" check box in "Graph" tab in Options dialog ("Tools: Options" menu)? Hope this solves the problem.
Thanks. A few minutes ago I verified that this information enables me to solve the problem.
Unfortunately, I gave my conference presentation early today. I was unable to solve the problem last night so I deleted the second set of data from my presentation. (I avoided the use of color to distinguish the curves because I don't want to rely on color in my conference paper.)
I don't see the point of having a default that causes dashed curves to look like solid curves.
By the way, I also had the same problem with dotted curves and one or two other types of curves.
Retrace lines
Posted - 06/19/2011 : 7:35:41 PM
