Displaying desire line bars and adjusting basic settings

You decide whether you want to display desire lines for zones or main zones and adjust the basic settings. Desire line display can include the following:

  • Desire line bars
  • Desire line bar labels
  • Desire line links

1.  From the Graphics menu, choose Edit graphic parameters.

Tip: Alternatively, to open the window, press the Ctrl key together with the G key.

The Edit graphic parameters window opens.

2.  In the navigator, select the Desire lines zones entry.

Note: For the display of desire lines between main zones, select the navigator entry Desire lines main zones. The settings are identical.

3.  Select the Layer control tab.

4.  Make the desired changes.

Element

Description

Draw layer desire lines (zones)

If this option has been selected, desire lines can be displayed.

Draw bars

If this option has been selected, desire line bars can be displayed.

Draw bar labels

If this option has been selected, bar labels can be displayed.

Draw desire line links

If this option has been selected each OD pair is displayed by a linear slope.

5.  Select the General settings tab.

6.  Make the desired changes.

Element

Description

Use cross-section values

If the option has been selected, the mean value is calculated from both directions.

If the option has not been selected, the values are determined separately for each direction.

Note

If an undirected value to be displayed is averaged, it is automatically divided by two, so that half of the undirected value counts as the upper limit for the scaling. If, for example, the scaling range is 1-1000 and the bar width is 10 mm, an undirected value of 2000 is displayed with a volume of 1000 on each side and a bar width of 10 mm.

Distance between bars

Distance between the desire line bars in mm

Line style properties

You can edit the line style in a separate window. To do so, click in the box (Setting the line style properties).

Text positioning: vertical

Next to bar

If the option has been selected, the label is displayed next to the bar.

Within bar

If the option has been selected, the label is displayed within the bar.

Text distance

Distance between label and desire line link (if the option Within bar has been selected) or the distance between label and bar (if the option Next to bar has been selected).

7.  Select the Text format tab.

8.  Make the desired changes.

Element

Description

Font and color

Font

You can specify a Font and a Style in a separate window by clicking in the field.

Text size

Text size in mm

Note

If the text size is 0.0 mm, no bar label is issued.

Label color = bar fill color

If the option has been selected, the text is displayed in the same color as the bar.

Tip

We recommend this option if several bars are displayed.

If the option has not been selected, you can select a color in the drop-down list.

Uniform label color

If this option has been selected, select a unique color for the label in the drop-down list.

Text entry

Transparent

If the option has been selected, the bar label is displayed without the white background, as text only.

Draw frame

If the option is selected, the label is drawn with a frame. From the selection list, you can select the color.

Alignment

You can specify the alignment and the display of several bar labels via the drop-down list:

  • Horizontal

The labels are displayed in a row.

  • Vertical

The labels are displayed one below the other.

  • Vertical + Sum

All labels are displayed one below the other and underneath, the sum of the values is displayed.

  • Sum only

Only the values of the sum are displayed.

Line spacing

Line distance in percent of the current text size

9.  Select the OD pair selection tab.

10.  Make the desired changes.

Element

Description

OD pairs are displayed

Maximum number of OD pairs which are displayed

The OD pairs with the greatest scaling attribute values are drawn (Setting the display properties of a bar).

Draw only active OD pairs

If the option has been selected, only active OD pairs are displayed.

Regard all OD pairs

If the option has been selected, all OD pairs are displayed.

Draw only selected OD pairs

If the option has been selected, you can display OD pairs with specific attribute values. Use the button below the option to select the desired attribute.

In the table, you create the classification (Displaying classified objects based on attribute values). Via the check box in the Draw column you decide whether the OD pairs of the particular class are to be drawn.

Use layer order

If the option has been selected, you can specify the order of drawing for the classes. The order is specified via the numbers in the Layer column. This column appears as soon as the option is checked. By default, the network objects of the various classes are drawn in the order as specified by the order of the classes in the list.

Desire lines are always displayed and the basic settings have been preset. In the Desire lines zones > Display section, you now have to define the individual bars and their display properties (Defining one or multiple bars and Setting the display properties of a bar).