# 3D Graph

3D Graph — MC Grating documentation for Modal Collinear and Modal Conical and Modal Crossed and Chandezon Collinear and Chandezon Conical and Chandezon…

Canonical: https://mcgrating.com/docs/common/graph-3d.html


Written by Nikolay M. LyndinLast revised 2012-12-17

This documentation was written for releases up to 2018 and is being revised. Some dialogs have changed since. If something does not match what you see, write to [mc@mcgrating.com](mailto:mc@mcgrating.com).

In case of a two parameters scan, after clicking the ***Graph*** control the 3D Graph window will appear. This window is common for all projects.

The ***Edit*** menu may provide the following options:

***Titles ***is the option for editing titles of the *Value*, *Row* and *Column* axes.

***Copy ***copies the Image into Clipboard .

***Save as ***saves the graph in Bitmap, JPEG and Windows metafile formats.

***Print***.

The second menu ***View*** may contain the following options:

***Front***

***Back***

***Top Color Image***

***Node's Hint***

***Color Scale***

***Interfaces***

***Aspect Ratio***

The ***Front***, ***Back*** and ***Top Color Image*** items have an obvious meaning. If ***Node's Hint*** is checked then the user by pointing *Cursor* at a *Node* position can inspect its value and coordinates. The ***Color Scale***, ***Interfaces*** and ***Aspect Ratio*** items are related to the ***Top Color Image*** option only. ***Interfaces*** item is not available for the external graph.

**Additional view options** (*Front* and *Back*)

***Horizontal View ***option. If the user presses the left mouse button and *Cursor* is in the 3D Graph area a vertical line crossing the front corner horizontal coordinate plane appears. Holding pressed the mouse button the user can lock *Cursor* to this line (*Cursor* changes shape and line disappears) and then change the horizontal position of this front corner that equivalent the Graph horizontal rotation in the range from -90 till 90 degrees.

***Vertical View*** option. With the right mouse button in the sane manner the user can change the back corner horizontal coordinate plane vertical position that equivalent the Graph view changes in the range from horizontal till top view.

**Additional view option** (*Top Color Image*)

Right mouse click at image area opens Popup Menu for changing Color Scale Type (Blue-Green-Red; Black-Violet-Blue-Green-Red-White; Black-Grey-White).

From the in-application help of Modal Collinear and Modal Conical, documented through 2018. If you publish results computed with MC Grating, see [how to cite it](https://mcgrating.com/references.html#cite).