Gauge Properties dialog: Scale tab

Use this tab of the "Gauge Properties dialog" to set properties for the following parts of a gauge:

• Gauge limits — The minimum and maximum points on the gauge value axis.

• Tick marks — The markings along the value axis of the gauge. They can identify regular intervals, from the minimum value to the maximum value, and can also indicate threshold values. (You set threshold values in the "Settings pane.")

For more information, see:

• "Editing Gauge Views"

Components

Gauge Limits

Use this area to specify the gauge limits as follows:

• Select the Default box to use the default gauge limits.

• Select the Specify box to specify custom gauge limits. Then, in the Minimum field enter the lowest point and in the Maximum field enter the highest point.

  Click the Customize Gauge Limit button to the right of the Minimum or Maximum field to display the "Customize Gauge Limit dialog," where you specify the custom gauge limit. You can specify the limits as an actual value or a percentage.

  By default and in percentage scale, gauge scale is always shown as 0% to 100%. (It never shows more than 100%.)

  To show the values to which 0% and 100% are mapped, in the Gauge Properties dialog: Titles and Labels tab, click the Axis Labels: Format Label button and select the Actual Value option in the Axis Labels box.

  The gauge's actual minimum and maximum values are mapped 0% and 100% based on the gauge's internal minimum and maximum algorithm and depend on the data set. Normally, the 0% and 100% might not match the exact minimum and maximum of the data set.

  However, if you set the scale minimum and maximum on the Gauge Properties dialog: Scale tab, the 0% and 100% exactly correspond to the scale minimum and maximum values.

Tick Type

Displays the following options to specify the number of tick marks to display:

• Dynamic — Select this box to let the system automatically calculate (based on the data) the number of tick marks to display.

• Specify — Select this option to specify the number of tick marks to display.

Show Major Ticks

This box is not available for bulb gauges.

Use this box to specify whether major tick marks are to be shown.

To show major ticks, select this box and then specify the number of major tick marks to show.

Show Minor Ticks

This box is not available for bulb gauges.

Use this box to specify whether to show minor tick marks.

Minor tick marks show only in dial gauges that show one measure.

To show minor ticks, select this box and then specify the number of minor tick marks to show.