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### A.5.7 Plane Plot Window

Plane Plot Window

The Plane Plot () plots 2-dimensional Cartesian positions on a plane. See the Window Overview for features common to all layer plots.

The positional coordinates are X and Y. To control the direction and linear/log scaling of the axes, see the Coords tab of the Axes control.

Navigation controls:

Panning
  Drag the plot around by holding down the left mouse button.
Zooming
  The best way to zoom is using the mouse wheel on the plot (some machines with no wheel can simulate this with a two-fingered slide on the mouse pad), since this zooms around the current mouse position. An alternative is to use the zoom buttons (/) on the toolbar, which zoom around the center of the plot. This zooming is isotropic - both axes zoom by the same factor.

  You can also change the zoom using the Range tab in the Axes control. This lets you assign different magnifications to the two axes.

The Plane Plot offers the following plot controls:

- Table Layer Control, with these form options:
  - Mark
  - Size
  - Vector
  - Error Bars
  - Ellipse
  - Pair Link
  - Triple Link
  - Line
  - Text Label
  - Contour
- Function Layer Control

The Axes control () is described in the next subsection.

- A.5.7.1 Plane Axes Control

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