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positioned. When designing a recording area, care must be taken that the
required areas of the coordinate system do not exceed the hard-clip limits;
otherwise data will be "clipped" when plotted.
An example of clipping is demonstrated by the following illustration. The
upper figure shows a recording area (white) defined by the zero and full
scale points. Note that the points have been positioned so that all coordi
nate system quadrants are within the hard-clip limits (dotted lines). Such a
recording area might be prepared for plotting a versus-chan3 measurement
having negative
X-
and Y-axis data.
In the lower figure, the zero and full-scale points have been moved so that
Quadrants
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intersect the hard-clip limits. Because the pen
cannot move beyond the hard-clip limits when plotting measurements,
data points that would normally
be
mapped onto the deleted regions of the
recording area would be clipped at the limits and excluded from the plot.
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Measurement Setup Operations 3-5