Legend Tips

  • The Legend Manager main screen makes extensive use of the right mouse button for context menu activation. Right-click any legend or legend item and all the relevant commands will be available.

  • Use the Create New Legend tool to generate a legend based on the contents of loaded object data. Using a range of tools to easily highlight value distribution, bounds and other characteristics, generating legend intervals is really quick and easy.

  • In addition to values and ranges, legends can include filter arguments that make it possible to display values, obeying specific criteria, in a distinct way. See Legend Interval Types and Filter Legends.

  • Legends provide everything you need to create legends to control the line-styles, patterns, symbols and colors necessary to enhance the presentation of your data, and aid its interpretation. It's not just about colours!

  • Legends can be easily shared: Storing a legend within a project means data supported by that legend is displayed consistently, even if you send the project to someone else in your organization. Individual legends can also be saved (to an".elg" file) and sent to another user. See Sharing Legends Between Projects.

  • You can combine legends if you wish. This can be useful, say to include additional categories in a rock type legend, for example, See Combine Legends.

  • You aren't restricted to having only one interval type in your legend. You can have any combination of unique value, range and filter expressions within the same legend (although be wary of defining intervals so that category 'overlaps' occur). See Filter Legends.

  • Legend interval sizes can be based on a value range, or ranges can be set to automatically include equal value populations, and there are other settings that determine how a set of intervals is calculated, using the Create New Legend wizard.

  • Legends can be applied to overlays and overlays can be saved as 3D templates. This makes it easy to consistently associate legends with multiple data and projects.

  • The order of legend intervals is not important unless a category overlap occurs, in which case, the latest interval definition is used.

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