Plotting data the painless way

The use of computer programs for plotting data has enable the plotting in a variety of formats, customize those formats to engineers' requirements, and to prepare the graph for input into a final report within minutes. These computer programs are based on CFD packages or basic Microsoft Office products such as Excel and Word.One such program that focuses on data, data analysis and statistics is SigmaPlot from Systat. The graph creation with this program starts with its user interface. The interactive Graph Wizard leads through every step of graph creation when the graph type to be created is selected from the Graph Toolbar's icons. SigmaPlot offers more than 80 2D and 3D technical graph types, 2D technical graph types for research and data analysis, and 3D data for rendering multiple intersecting 3D meshes with hidden line removal to help see interactions within 3D data. This graphing tool enables development of camera-ready versions of the plot to be included in any document.