Help for a beginner

peterh · Post by **peterh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:01 pm

Hi
I am new to DPlot.
I hoped ithat finaly get a easy to use nice ploting program.
Now I can not even read an excel spread sheet in the program.
I tryed the help an 'get started " but this is not helpful at all.

So here is what I do:
i open dplot
say file>open and selct D.
Then i selct my excel spread sheet and I get the error message
"unable to find a data pattern in collumns"
now I jsut put in the excel 2 collumsn each wiht 12 rows. how can it not read this.
what do i do wrong?

please help

thanks

Peter

peterh · Post by **peterh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:06 pm

Alos
some of my excel spread sheet it can read wihtout this error message.
I do not undersyand when it reads it right and when it does not.

Also ones it reads it nothing happens i still ahve a white board informt of me no numbers or plotts appear.

Pleas help i need to read my data in somehow.

thanks

peter

Post by **DPlotAdmin** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:45 pm

Peter,
DPlot will not read an Excel XLS file. I've never added support for XLS files mostly because those files may contain virtually anything in no particular order: pictures and other embedded objects, text that has nothing to do with data plotting, data that starts in arbitrary locations, etc.

DPlot will open CSV files created by Excel, but if you have Excel installed then you'll probably get more benefit out of using the DPlot Add-In. If you elected to install this optional component then you should see a "DPlot" menu item in Excel. I suggest you take a look at the examples.xls file (installed to the same folder as dplot.exe, default location is c:\Program Files\DPlot) to get an idea of the Add-In's capabilities.

peterh · Post by **peterh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:41 pm

Thank you your information was very helpful. i got my plots now.

Thanks a lot

One more question.
i have now a 3D plot like the (see attachemnt)
how do i change this in a 3d plot surface like a 3d drawing perspective.
also how can i cahnge angles to view it?

i could not figure that out so far.

thanks

peter

peterh · Post by **peterh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:43 pm

o.k i dont know how to attac an image here but my 3d plot looks like a topo map now but i want a 3d view how do i cahnge this?

thanks a lot

peter

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Post by **DPlotAdmin** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:15 am

Select Options>Contour Options. Check the "View in 3D" box. View angles are controlled just below that box.

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