Rotate Gizmo ticks and tick labels

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Wed, 03/11/2015 - 06:47 pm

I have a Gizmo plot that I want to view from the top.

How can I rotate the ticks and tick labels so they can be seen?

As far as I can see, altering the rotation parameters in Axis Stuff->Ticks and numerical labels doesn't do anything.

Any ideas?

I'm using Igor Pro v6.3.6.4.
masheroz wrote:
As far as I can see, altering the rotation parameters in Axis Stuff->Ticks and numerical labels doesn't do anything.


You are not telling us what you tried so I'll skip directly to the correct approach. You can accomplish the following from the Axes dialog. I will use commands to simply the explanation.

1. Turn off z-axis labeling because they become irrelevant in this view.
2. Add an offset so that the labels are drawn outside the box boundaries not below them. For example
    ModifyGizmo ModifyObject=axes0,property={0,labelOffset,0,0,-0.1}

3. Choose rotation axis and rotation angle. For the x-direction labels I use
    ModifyGizmo ModifyObject=axes0,property={0,labelRotationAxis,1,0,0}
    ModifyGizmo ModifyObject=axes0,property={0,labelRotationAngle,90}


I hope this helps,

A.G.
WaveMetrics, Inc.

March 16, 2015 at 01:16 pm - Permalink

I was putting in numerical rotation values in the Rotation boxes for X,Y, and Z in the "Ticks and Numerical Labels" tab of the "Axis Stuff" dialog box.

It seems that "1" nominates the axis, and "rotation (degrees)" is actually the way that it works.

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I got it, but with an offset of +0.1 and a rotation of -90 for the X axis.

Now to investigate how to rotate the ticks.

March 16, 2015 at 08:10 pm - Permalink

masheroz wrote:

Now to investigate how to rotate the ticks.

There is no user-control over the rotation of the tickmarks.

Out of curiosity: your display is equivalent to that of a regular image. Why use Gizmo when you completely suppress the third dimension?

A.G.
WaveMetrics, Inc.

March 17, 2015 at 09:59 am - Permalink

Basically because I use Gizmo to rotate around the dataset so I can see small peaks, mark off where they go; it's an enormous aid to actually see the small peaks.

I then want to have a single image showing the dataset from the top. Why do I have to go to the trouble of making a new image, redoing the colour scheme, rescaling the axes, and everything else that I've done to get the gizmo plot just right when I can just rotate the gizmo plot to view from the top.

March 17, 2015 at 06:19 pm - Permalink

masheroz wrote:
Why do I have to go to the trouble of making a new image, redoing the colour scheme, rescaling the axes, and everything else that I've done to get the gizmo plot just right when I can just rotate the gizmo plot to view from the top.


You do not have to create a new image but if you did, the resulting labels would look much better especially if the image is exported. Gizmo's output is a bitmap and that includes any labels.

March 18, 2015 at 12:06 pm - Permalink