Graph in RSView32 or Factory Talk

Hello All!! I need to build a graph showing on the x (horizontal) axes my tag for distance and y (vertical) axes my tag for load. I did have a trend set up but on the x axes i could only display time and couldnt change that value.

if this possible on rsview and if not is it possible in factory talk??? thank you all!

I have never tried this, but you should be able to setup a XY Plot using RSTrendX.

Hi,

I haven't tried this, but just looking at the General Tab for a Trend, you can select a "Standard" or "XY Plot" trend.

If you select a "XY Plot" trend, you can then select a PEN (say PEN1) to use for the X- Axis.

Under the connections tab, you can then assign a tag to PEN1...

Does this help?
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I've never been entirely happy with the X-Y Trend feature of the TrendX object. You can make it work but it takes a lot of effort to make it do anything except time-based trending.

Even though you can define a non-Time variable for the X axis, the object still behaves like a Trend: it draws a line between X,Y coordinates that it samples on a timed interval.

To draw a "graph" or "chart" I have to open the object and then "feed" it data points one at a time every few hundred milliseconds until the graph is full. That makes it a big tradeoff between how fast I want the graph to appear and how many data points I can show.

My most common problem is when the display containing the object comes up and my values are back on the 0,0 point.... the line happily gets drawn to the beginning of the graph, then back to the middle of my data set... it's a mess. And there's no way to disable graphing effectively (I suppose I could stop the data model, then re-start it, but that is by no means a precise method) and no way to clear the display other than using a non-historical tag set and closing/re-opening the window.

Has anyone used an ActiveX object other than TrendX, from RA or another vendor, inside RSView32 or FactoryTalk View ?

i would like to try this but i cant seem to figure out how to get a new trendx object...i have trendx instaled on my machine cause i can view the trendx demo but i cant figure out how to start a new one in a new graphic.....any help?

nevermind that post, i didnt realize it was called RStrendx i was just looking for trendx under t not under r.

but now i have another porblem, when i create a new trendx graph my option for xy plot is shaded meaning i cant select it.

Try this:

Go to the Pens section and add the tags you're going to use as "trend pens", then exit and re-open the RSTrendX object.

The creation of the pens means there will be a data source for the X-axis, which enables its selection.

Hello All,
Is it possible to plot graph without using Trend.I mean to say can we use OLE or any other tools.