Graphs
Panels, cards, zooming, dragging past the end of a log, the legend, per-channel axis ranges, race zero and comparing.
One to four panels
The small 1 2 3 4 buttons in the top-left of the upper graph choose how many panels you see. All four are offered on the Graph tab, which has the whole window; on the Gauges and Histograms tabs the pane is shared with the dashboard or the table, so three is the most.
The fourth panel is added above the bottom graph, so a channel on the lower panel stays on the bottom whether you show two, three or four. Drop back to fewer panels and channels on a hidden panel are drawn on the bottom one instead of vanishing; they return to their own panel when you go back.
Above the graphs, a card per selected channel shows its live value with minimum, maximum and average for the log. Past eight cards the rest are behind + N more selected channels.
Zooming and panning
| Drag a graph | Pan through the log. Both panels stay locked together. |
| Wheel | Zoom around the pointer. |
| Shift + drag | Drag out a span and release to zoom to it. |
| ↑ ↓ | Zoom in and out around the cursor. |
| ← → | Step the cursor one sample. |
| The red window | Drag it to move; drag either edge to zoom that end only; click the bar anywhere else to centre there. |
| + − | Zoom buttons beside the overview bar. |
| ⛶ | Fullscreen. In the phone and tablet apps this button closes the log instead. |
| ↻ Reset Zoom | Back to the whole log. |
On a touch screen one finger moves the cursor and two fingers pan or pinch, so you can read values without the graph sliding around.
Dragging past the end
A run that ends at the finish line leaves the interesting part jammed against the right edge. You can drag the graph past either end of the log, by up to half a screen, so the last samples sit where you can read them. The empty part is shaded, with a dashed line marked log end or log start, so a gap never looks like missing data. Zoom right out and the view snaps back to exactly the log.
The legend
Each panel carries a legend listing its channels with their value at the cursor. Drag it to move it, drag its corner handle to resize it, double-click it to put it back, and click the × beside a channel to take that channel off the graph.
Right-click a graph
The menu opens headed with the exact time you clicked, and holds two things:
- Set race zero here Pro, and Clear race zero once one is set. With a comparison loaded you get one for each log, and the two are used to align them.
- Y-axis range. One row per channel on that panel, with a minimum, a maximum and Set. Auto returns a channel to automatic scaling. Use it when one channel's spikes flatten everything else.
Race zero
Set a zero point Pro and the time axis reads from your launch instead of from the start of the file, which is what makes two runs comparable. Right-click the moment on a graph, or use Set 0 in the race row. × clears it. The overview bar marks where the zero is.
Comparing two logs
Analyze → Compare a second log Pro draws a second log over the same axes. The compare bar names it and says whether it is aligned on race zero or aligned on start, with nudge buttons of 50 ms and 500 ms either way, the current offset, a reset, and × to remove the comparison.
Time slips, laps and Dragy
Analyze also takes performance data Pro: a time slip, lap times or a Dragy run. The increments draw on the graphs in race mode, so set a race zero at the launch first. Clear performance data removes it.
This page is part of the manual built into BigData for Windows, where the same topics are available offline with F1.