New Toolkit Brings Publication-Quality Plots to NI LabVIEW

BOULDER, Colo., June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Heliosphere Research today announced the immediate availability of the Advanced Plotting Toolkit, a new visualization add-on for LabVIEW software.  "This is a milestone product that resolves a common problem faced by engineers and developers in the LabVIEW world," said company founder Andrew Collette.  "For years, people have had to export their data into another environment like Excel in order to make high-quality, shareable plots, and deal with all the data-format headaches and scripting work that implies.  Now the same task can be done in about five minutes, right on the block diagram."

The Toolkit provides a library of 33 new LabVIEW Sub-VIs for use in users' projects.  They provide a wide range of graphing routines, from line, scatter, bar and polar plots to more complex visualizations including contours, streamlines, vector fields, math text and alpha-blending transparency.  "We're tremendously excited to bring these advanced features to the LabVIEW platform," said Mr. Collette.  "They complement NI's existing 2D and 3D interactive graphing tools perfectly, by giving developers a solution for high-quality plots that can be viewed on the front panel or saved to disk to share with their colleagues or customers.  We made sure that plots could be saved in PDF format, along with raster formats like PNG.  That way they can be put into a report, attached to an email, or posted on the Web, without any further work."

The Advanced Plotting Toolkit is certified Compatible with LabVIEW, and is available for evaluation and purchase on the LabVIEW Tools Network. "The Advanced Plotting Toolkit brings impressive visualization capabilities to the LabVIEW development environment and will be valuable to those needing publication-ready charts and graphs. We are excited to see it offered through the LabVIEW Tools Network," said Matthew Friedman, Senior Group Manager of the LabVIEW Tools Network.

Additional information, including examples and full documentation, is available on the official Advanced Plotting Toolkit website at AdvancedPlotting.com. 

About Heliosphere Research
Heliosphere Research LLC is a software company located in Boulder, Colorado, focused on scientific applications, data sharing, and visualization in the LabVIEW community.

LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com, and LabVIEW Tools Network are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

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