Introduction

The MIKE Zero Plot Composer provides you a work environment for creating report quality hardcopy output. Furthermore, some plot controls produce ani­mations that may be created, viewed and stored.

The heart of the plot composer is the workspace that represents the sheet of paper, which can be subsequently printed. One or more so-called containers may be placed in the workspace. The term container is used to denote an area in the workspace in which a plot or another item is placed. A specific set-up in the Plot Composer can be saved as a PFS-file (*.plc) and opened again later.

You can create a new empty Plot Composer set-up by selecting
File->New->File... and then Plot Composer from the MIKE Zero Product type documents.

Any kind of plot can be assigned to a container. They are referred to as plot objects, and include a range of plotting tools for the data types in MIKE Zero.

List of plot objects

Standard graphics

·         Dfsu Plot - plot 2D flexible mesh data (dfsu or mesh)

·         Grid Plot - plot grid data

·         Profile Plot - plot line data

·         Time Series Plot - plot time series data

Advanced graphics

·         ADCP 2D Plot - plotting of horizontal ADCP transect data

·         Annotation Plot - plotting text data

·         Flow Visualisation - float tracking plots from MIKE 21 hydrodynamic results

·         Probability Plot - plot of time series as histograms

·         Isopleth Plot - plotting of time variation of vertical line data

·         Label Plot - plot a drawing label on the page

·         Metafile Plot - plot the content of an enhanced metafile (*.emf)

·         Polar Plot - plotting of directional wave spectra computed by MIKE 21 SW

·         Current and Wind Rose Plot - plotting of wind/current rose from a dfs0 data file

·         Slice Plot - plotting of slices of dfs2 or dfs3 data

·         Time Series Direction Plot - plotting of directional dfs0 data as arrows

·         Track Flow Visualisation - float tracking plots from MIKE 21 hydrody­namic results with paths of particles.

·         XY Plot - plot an item against another item from a dfs0 data file