• SigmaPlot’s Graph Style Gallery: Save any graph with all graph properties and add a bitmap image to the gallery to create complex graphs
• Graph Toolbar: select toolbar icon of the graph type and style you want to create or to add additional curves to an existing graph
• Graph Wizard: easy to use, step-by-step wizard for helping you select a graph type for your data
• Default Graph Settings: set preferences for graph options to create favorite graphs quickly
• Templates: create custom graph page templates and store them for easy accessibility and future use
• “Intersections” are now supported for area fills
• Improved Graph Wizard: retains your last settings, click ‘Finish Early’ and Gallery Graphs are all listed

2D Graphs

3D Graphs

• Multiple, intersecting plots with hidden line removal, smooth or discrete shading, transparent or opaque fills and light source shading
• 3D rotation
• Perspective preview
• Scatter
• Bar
• 3D line – trajectory
• Mesh
• Contour
• Waterfall

Technical Axes

• Linear
• Log10
• Natural log
• Probit
• Logit
• Probability
• Reverse
• Ternary percentage
• Ternary unary
• Polar
• Category (text data automatically binned into groups)
• Time and date
• Weibull
• Reciprocal
• User-defined custom axis to create Extreme Value, Hingle, Bit Error Rate and many others

Axis Features

• Control of display, thickness, color, range and axis breaks
• Offset axes
• Automatic titles
• Multiple axes: Add Axis Wizard for creating multiple axes easily
• Ticks: customize major & minor intervals, in & out orientation, top & bottom location, length, thickness, color and tick mark selection from column to create custom axes
• Labels: customize prefix, suffix, numeric, and time & date
• Axis breaks: customize symbol, thickness, color, length, gap width and post break interval

Error bars

• Mean, Median, First and Last values for symbols
• Standard deviation, Standard error
• 10th, 25th, 75th and 90th Percentiles
• Min and Max
• 95% or 99% confidence
• Calculate error bars from replicate values across rows
• User-defined upper and lower error bar values
• One way, two way and asymmetric error bars
• Percentile method: choose between nearest integer (graphical) or value dependent (numerical) algorithms

Grids, Fills and Symbols

• Control of color, line type, thickness and display of major & minor grids in X, Y& Z direction
• Control of pattern and edge color, pattern style, pattern density and edge thickness

Symbols

• Over 80 symbol types
• 30 new symbol types that include half-filled and BMW styles
• Edit font when using text as symbol
• Access new symbols directly from graph properties dialog, toolbar, legend page and the symbol dialog box
• More line types such as dash and gap patterns
• More fill patterns for bar charts and area plots

Reference Lines

• Control mean, standard deviation, standard error, userdefined constants, 95% and 99% confidence intervals
• Up to 5 horizontal or vertical lines
• Control of color, line type and thickness Drop lines
• Display in any or all X, Y and Z directions

Function Plotter

• Plot 2D and 3D functions
• Over 100 2D and 3D built-in, graphically-illustrated equations
• User-defined parameters; scale and range
• Customize the SigmaPlot library of functions or create your own
• Plot functions on new or existing graphs
• Plot multiple different parameter values simultaneously
• Select line properties for each function
• Equation Solver: solve equations or functions containing a single independent variable and any number of parameters

Graphs Created Through Transforms

• Gaussian cumulative distribution
• Area – shading under and between curves
• Z plane design
• Vector
• Kaplan-Meier survival
• Frequency
• Complex Control charts
• User-defined axes

Multiline Text Editor

• Control font, size, style, color, Greek, multiple levels of superscript & subscript, 360 degree rotation, left, right & center justification and line spacing

Legends

• Automatic or manually created
• Legends for regressions, confidence and prediction intervals
• Turn on and off lines and symbols
• Place line and symbol before or after text
• Reverse legend item order
• Move legend items in list
• Direct labeling – place legend items next to plots

Export Graphs Options

• Export an individual graph, a group of graphs and objects or an entire page
• Different levels of resolution and color depths: PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, WMF, BMP
• True color EPS vector and CMYK EPS export
• Compressed CMYK TIFF
• Vector formats: PDF, SVG, SWF
• Publication Help: guides user through the complexities selecting the correct DPI, image size, file export format

Publish as Web Page

• Export graphs as high-resolution Web objects
• WebViewer: free browser plug-in to view data used create graph or print, pan and zoom in on graph without losing resolution
• The WebViewer supports IE 4.01 or higher. A screen resolution JPEG file is automatically displayed for browser applications and operating systems