Using named chart layouts

You can adjust how charts are displayed and assign a name to the current settings, which can be used to retrieve the chart layout later on. You can save these named chart layouts in the *.layx file. In a chart you can choose a layout from all the named chart layouts to display the chart accordingly.

Define named chart layout

1.  Open the desired chart.

2.  Adjust the chart layout (Adjusting how the chart is displayed).

3.  On the chart toolbar, click the Named layout button .

4.  Click Add.

5.  Overwrite the selected entry with the desired name and click next to it on .

In the toolbar of all chart lists, the new chart layout is displayed in the  Chart layout selection field and can be selected by clicking the button.

Assigning a complete chart layout

You can assign the data selection and the graphic parameters saved in a named chart layout to a chart.

1.  Open the desired chart.

2.  On the chart toolbar, click the Named layout button .

3.  Select the desired chart layout.

The chart layout is assigned to the chart.

Saving a named chart layout

1.  On the File menu, click > Save Layout as.

2.  Enter a unique name.

3.  Confirm with Save.

The entire layout of the current Vissim GUI, and thus all named chart layouts, are saved in the *.layx layout file.

If in the User Preferences, the option Auto-save layout when network file (inpx) is saved is selected, the layout file is saved automatically under the name of the currently loaded network file, each time the network file is saved (Specifying automatic saving of the layout file *.layx).

Reading saved named chart layouts additionally

You can import all chart layouts saved in a *.layx layout file into your currently opened file. Then you can apply these chart layouts to a chart in the currently opened file.

1.  On the File menu, click > Read Additionally > Named Chart Layouts.

2.  Select the desired *.layx file.

3.  Click the Open button.

The chart layouts are imported. When you open a chart, you can select the added chart layouts on the toolbar of the chart window in the Chart layout selection list box.

Deleting a named chart layout

1.  On the chart toolbar, click the Named layout button .

2.   Point the mouse pointer at the name of the diagram layout and click next to it on .