Software for drawing graphs..

ashok · 21st April 2005, 05:44 PM

Apart from Excel , what other software is available for making up graphs with the facility to make up one own scales and can plot several curves on one chart ?
Thanks.
Ashok.

RHosch · 21st April 2005, 06:09 PM

Freeware, Shareware, Cheap, Expensive...?

Sigmaplot
Origin
Mathcad
Mathematica...

tschrama · 21st April 2005, 06:18 PM

Excel is for housewives

Matlab, Octave, other matlab clones, origin is very good but expensive

RHosch · 21st April 2005, 06:24 PM

There's also GNUplot which can run on Windows, and with effort you can actually use it! Capable program if you have the time...

mercator · 22nd April 2005, 11:44 PM

GNuPlot is nice, but I vote for ploticus.
Not for everyone, but once you learn to like the command line....

/Dave

officeboy · 23rd April 2005, 12:35 AM

For free there isOpenoffice.org Calc an excel like spreadsheet program.

ashok · 23rd April 2005, 03:05 AM

Thanks guys, that's a lot to look at.
I basically wanted to draw a graph with either a formula or data table and also be able to configure the X and Y axis as I wished ( lin, log etc). I also wanted to be able to choose the style of the lines on the plot and colours and also background colour.
I'll check them out.
Thanks,
Ashok.

jackinnj · 23rd April 2005, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tschrama
Excel is for housewives

Very wealthy housewives -- in the early 1980's I wrote a program using Excel macros which was able to price a peculiar type of bond very, very quickly -- later, in the mid-1990's I wrote another program which quickly and acurately evaluated the prices of securities of companies in bankruptcy --

and now I use Mountain Computing cards to dump data into Excel.

how I wish that we had this tool when I was an undergrad -- there would have been more time for beer.

johnf · 23rd April 2005, 01:10 PM

Igor from Wavemetrics is very good and is to engineering and scientific graphing the way Quark is to desktop publishing (though not nearly as well known). It is fully programmable for cranking out a lot of similiar graphs but also has an interactive GUI for creating one-off's. A neat feature of Igor is that you can quickly create your first graph with its interactive GUI, like you would in many other programs, and then reuse your GUI work in subsequent graphs. Igor automatically generates a script program to recreate the graph when you save it. You can then use and modify this code to create similar graphs or graph other data with little extra effort.

If you want to create your own GUI, Igor lets you do that as well. Its scripting language and libraries are powerful enough to create some fairly impressive interactive programs. You could, if you wanted, create a nice one for designing active filters without much work.

Check out Igor if you have to do any kind of serious graphing. I was glad to have found it while I was working on my thesis.

mikeks · 27th April 2005, 11:59 PM

http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/produc...aanal/tecplot/

http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/produc...anal/easyplot/

http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/dataanal/dadisp/

21st April 2005, 05:44 PM	#1
ashok diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 3RS	Software for drawing graphs.. Apart from Excel , what other software is available for making up graphs with the facility to make up one own scales and can plot several curves on one chart ? Thanks. Ashok. __________________ AM

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mercator diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Calgary	GNuPlot is nice, but I vote for ploticus. Not for everyone, but once you learn to like the command line.... /Dave __________________ Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

23rd April 2005, 03:05 AM	#7
ashok diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 3RS	Thanks guys, that's a lot to look at. I basically wanted to draw a graph with either a formula or data table and also be able to configure the X and Y axis as I wished ( lin, log etc). I also wanted to be able to choose the style of the lines on the plot and colours and also background colour. I'll check them out. Thanks, Ashok. __________________ AM

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RHosch diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: SouthEast	Freeware, Shareware, Cheap, Expensive...? Sigmaplot Origin Mathcad Mathematica...

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tschrama diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The Netherlands	Excel is for housewives Matlab, Octave, other matlab clones, origin is very good but expensive

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RHosch diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: SouthEast	There's also GNUplot which can run on Windows, and with effort you can actually use it! Capable program if you have the time...

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officeboy diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NW Washington	For free there isOpenoffice.org Calc an excel like spreadsheet program.

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johnf diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Bremerhaven	Igor from Wavemetrics is very good and is to engineering and scientific graphing the way Quark is to desktop publishing (though not nearly as well known). It is fully programmable for cranking out a lot of similiar graphs but also has an interactive GUI for creating one-off's. A neat feature of Igor is that you can quickly create your first graph with its interactive GUI, like you would in many other programs, and then reuse your GUI work in subsequent graphs. Igor automatically generates a script program to recreate the graph when you save it. You can then use and modify this code to create similar graphs or graph other data with little extra effort. If you want to create your own GUI, Igor lets you do that as well. Its scripting language and libraries are powerful enough to create some fairly impressive interactive programs. You could, if you wanted, create a nice one for designing active filters without much work. Check out Igor if you have to do any kind of serious graphing. I was glad to have found it while I was working on my thesis.

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