User:Glenn macgougan/Plot2D (plotting tool)

Plot2D is an open source computer program for producing 2D plots of multiple series from numeric data files. It operates under Unix, Linux, and Win32 systems. It runs using a Command line interface. It also has a Windows GUI.

It plots multiple data series from ASCII text files with numeric data directly to a bitmap (BMP file format) file (using Run-length encoding compression). It is written using C and C++ source code. Plot2D can be configured via Command-line arguments or using an ASCII option file.

Usage examples

All the options for running the program are listed.

plot2d -h

Generate a default options file.

plot2d -c plot2d_options.txt

Generate the plot using the easy to use option file.

plot2d -f plot2d_options.txt

The program will plot the first column vs the second column or the first column vs the sample index if there is only one column.

plot2d data.txt

Plot column 1 vs column 3.

plot2d data.txt 1 3

Plot column 1 vs 2, 1 vs 3, and 1 vs 4.

plot2d data.txt 1 2 1 3 1 4

Plot with lots of command line options.

plot2d data.txt 1 2 -xlim -10 10 -ylim -1 1 -title "The Title" -xlabel "Time (s)" -ylabel "Voltage (V)"

Plot columns 1 vs 2 and 1 vs 3 of a comma delimited file. The program automatically determines the comma delimiter.

plot2d data.csv 1 2 1 3 -title "A comma delimited file with 2 series"