Specifications

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In some cases you can have curves with complicated shapes that you may want to investigate in details.
The zoom tool is handy for that. When you press the toolbar button with the little magnifying glass, zoom
mode switches on, and you can select an area of the chart for closer investigation by dragging the mouse.
You can zoom again on the zoomed area and go as close to the detail you are interested in as you like. The
zoom mode remains active until you click the magnifying glass again. This resets the view to the original
area.
To investigate the data in even more detail you can switch the data box on by clicking the appropriate
button on the toolbar. This gives you a spreadsheet-like box at the bottom of the screen, and you can
investigate the numbers behind the graphs in detail. You can even double-click the numbers and edit them.
Of course, that would be cheating...
The specification line
Above the toolbar in the chart view you find a specification panel. It is useful for several applications that
are a bit more advanced. With the specification panel you can specify plotting of a family of curves, you can
specify your own abscissa, and you can save and recall plot specifications.
You may want to look at several curves at a time. The secret to doing that is the Y data specification line.
This line can to some extent parse the specification string. This means that you can compose the string with
any number of wild characters such as you may know from file name specifications in Windows, Unix and
other operative systems. If you, for instance, replace "brachialis" the data specification with '*' like this:
ArmStudy.Output.Model.Muscles.*.Fm
then you will get all the muscle force curves plotted simultaneously. as shown below: