Re: Best strategy for using Drawing Tools
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- Subject: [mg76637] Re: [mg76580] Best strategy for using Drawing Tools
- From: Brett Champion <brettc at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 06:27:19 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 24, 2007, at 5:06 AM , Hugh wrote:
> You have just done a plot say
>
> Plot[{3 Sin[x], 4 Cos[x]}, {x, 0, 4 Pi}]
>
> and now you use Drawing Tools from the pull down menu to add text,
> arrows and other additions to the plot. However, to your horror, you
> find that the original plot was wrong and you wanted 5 Cos not 4 Cos.
> If you change the input and re-evaluate, a new output cell is created
> without the additions generated by Drawing Tools. Thankfully the old
> output is still there, as well, as a second output cell. The problem
> is to copy the Drawing Tools additons onto the new output.
>
> My poor solution is to convert the old output with additions to
> InputForm, using the Cell Convert menu, and then to copy the
> additions to an Epilog option in the original plot so it becomes
>
> Plot[{3 Sin[x], 5 Cos[x]}, {x, 0, 4 Pi}, Epilog -> {copied
> primitives}]
>
> Then re - evaluate and the additions are on the plot. This is a poor
> solution and I can't change the additions dynamically.
>
> What is the proper way of saving your work in these circumstances?
One solution:
+ Double click in the old graphic.
+ Edit > Select All (selects all the contents of the graphic)
+ Shift-click on the two curves from the plot (de-selects the curves)
+ Edit > Copy
+ Double click in the new graphic.
+ Edit > Paste
Brett Champion
Wolfram Research
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- Best strategy for using Drawing Tools
- From: Hugh <h.g.d.goyder@cranfield.ac.uk>
- Best strategy for using Drawing Tools