Table Contour

) plot to display data from a table as a contour plot. Right-click a to add this plot type. First define a table to plot. This plot is also available from the plot groups’ contextual ribbon toolbar by selecting from the menu. Add Height Expression, Material Appearance, and Transparency (only if Height Expression is used) subnodes if required.

	Go to Common Results Node Settings for links to information about these sections: Title, Levels, Quality, Inherit Style, and, except for some details below, Coloring and Style.

From the list, choose or group, and then choose a table or evaluation group table with the data that you want to plot as a contour plot from the or group list below.

From the list, select one of the following formats for interpreting the table data:

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Select if the data is structurally filled (for tables only; this option is not available for evaluation groups). See Filled Table for additional settings for this data format.

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Select (the default) if you want to specify what columns to take the data from. See Columns for additional settings for this format.

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Select to treat the tables data as cells in a matrix and use the table row and column numbers as the x- and y-coordinates, respectively. There are no additional settings for this format.

Select an option from the list: (the default) or . If is selected, select options from the and lists, which contain the parameters that define the rows and columns for the table’s matrix data, and from the list, which corresponds to the list in the node for the data. If there are additional parameters in a parametric sweep, they need to be kept at fixed values, which you select from the list, which contains all combinations of parameter values for the parameters that are not used as x-axis or y-axis data.

From the , , and lists, choose the columns to use for the x-axis, y-axis, and the data, respectively.

For all data formats, select the check box if you want to plot the imaginary part of complex-valued data. For real-valued data, that plot shows a zero imaginary part.

This section contains settings to preprocess the data in the table contour plot by scaling and shifting the data values, which can be useful to match data from different sources or to scale some data to express the values in another unit, for example.

Under and , from the list select:

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, to preprocess the data using a linear transformation of the data values for the x- or y-axis column. You define the linear preprocessing with values for the scaling (default: 1) and the shift or offset (default: 0) in the and fields, respectively. The default values do not change the original data values.

Select a : (the default) or . Using filled contours creates a plot with color banding rather than isolated contour lines or tubes when using the other contour types.

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If is selected, you can also clear the check box (selected by default) to not fill the areas of the geometry’s surface that are above the highest and below the lowest contour.

If you select to display level labels (not available for filled contours), select the check box and specify the precision (number of significant digits) as a positive integer in the field (default: 4). You can also choose a color for the labels from the list: Choose to use the color from the color theme, choose to define a custom color, or choose any of the predefined colors.

For coloring the contours, select one of the following options from the list:

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Select (the default) to color the contours using a color table that you choose from the list below.

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Select to use a predefined uniform color, or select to define a custom color from the colored list below (on Windows) or by clicking the button (on Linux and macOS) and then selecting a color from the color palette.

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Select to specify the coloring as a gradient between two colors, which you specify using the and lists.

Choose a color table for the isosurfaces from the list.

The check box is selected by default. Clear it to remove the color legend. Select the or check boxes as required.