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CES EduPack is a unique resource for teaching materials and process-related courses.
In previous video tutorials, we looked at how to plot bar charts and bubble charts,
as well as how to customize and make the most out of your created charts.
In this video tutorial, we will look at how to create advanced charts; using either a
combination of properties on an axis or splitting an axis into different categories.
We are currently in Select and have chosen to select from Materials at level 1.
We can now click on Graph to create a Graph Stage.
The Graph Stage window first displays the y-axis tab.
So, let's click on advanced button, here. The text box, at the top, displays what is
selected to put on the axis. Below, we can add these mathematical operators
between either attributes, types of materials and/or constants/parameters.
Here, we are going to put on the axis: Young's Modulus, divided by, Density.
To do this, we first go to the list of attributes' tab, pick Young's modulus and click on insert,
here, making sure it appears in the text box at the top.
Then, we click on the divide symbol and go and find Density and click on insert.
We can check that the expression looks correct and then click ok.
The axis is now called and the editable title for the axis appears here.
Now, we can set the x axis. Here, we are also going to create an advanced
axis. But this time, we are going to use the tree
tab. The tree tab allows you to split up materials
on the graph or to only display the material classes you are interested in.
If we are, for example, only interested in glasses, composites and metals, we can click
on the metals folder, click insert and see that it appears in the text box at the top.
If you make a mistake, you can edit the text box by simply selecting your entry, and pressing
delete. We can add the glasses and composites folder.
And once we have what we want displayed at the top, we click ok.
Now that we have the two axes set, we can click ok to create the chart.
You can see the formula on the y axis, here and the split of materials along the x axis,
here. Lastly, we have seen that when selecting a
material, it is sometimes useful to use a combination of properties on an axis. This
is called a performance index. You can read about performance indices and
selection methodology in the help menu, going to help, CES Help, and looking at either help
on material selection methodology, here, or help on material indices, here.
In following video tutorials, you can learn how to use the Limit and Tree Stages as well
as the other tools available in CES EduPack.