How can I draw nice 3D Arrows to depict axes (a,b,c)

[axrDegen]

Hello,

How can I draw nice 3D arrows like in the attached picture?
By using the code below I only get "flat" arrows
and can't draw an arrow in Z direction:

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var
  tmpX,tmpY,tmpZ: Integer;
  FromPoint,ToPoint: TPoint;
begin
  tmpY := Chart.ChartYCenter + Round(Chart.Canvas.RotationCenter.Y);
  tmpX := Chart.ChartXCenter + Round(Chart.Canvas.RotationCenter.X);
  tmpZ := (Chart.Width3D div 2) + Round(Chart.Canvas.RotationCenter.Z);
  StrainChart.Canvas.Pen.Color := clRed;
  StrainChart.Canvas.Pen.Width := 4;
  StrainChart.Canvas.Pen.Style := psSolid;

  FromPoint.X := Chart.ChartRect.Left;
  FromPoint.Y := tmpY;
  ToPoint.X := Chart.ChartRect.Right;
  ToPoint.Y := tmpY;
  Chart.Canvas.Arrow(True, FromPoint, ToPoint, 50, 50, tmpZ);

  FromPoint.X := tmpX;
  FromPoint.Y := Chart.ChartRect.Bottom;
  ToPoint.X := tmpX;
  ToPoint.Y := StrainChart.ChartRect.Top;
  Chart.Canvas.Arrow(True, FromPoint, ToPoint, 50, 50, tmpZ);

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[Yeray]

Hello,

You can give it a try at the Vector series. Ie:

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uses TeeSurfa;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  with Chart1 do
  begin
    Chart3DPercent:=100;
    Aspect.Orthogonal:=False;
    Aspect.Zoom:=70;
    Legend.Hide;

    Axes.Left.SetMinMax(0,10);
    Axes.Bottom.SetMinMax(0,10);
    Axes.Depth.SetMinMax(0,10);
    Axes.Depth.Visible:=True;

    Axes.Left.Increment:=1;
    Axes.Bottom.Increment:=1;
    Axes.Depth.Increment:=1;
  end;

  with Chart1.AddSeries(TVector3DSeries) as TVector3DSeries do
  begin
    Color:=clRed;
    Pen.Width:=2;
    ArrowHeight:=10;
    ArrowWidth:=10;
    AddVector(5,5,5,0,5,5,'', clRed);
    AddVector(5,5,5,10,5,5,'', clRed);
    AddVector(5,5,5,5,0,5,'', clRed);
    AddVector(5,5,5,5,10,5,'', clRed);
    AddVector(5,5,5,5,5,0,'', clRed);
    AddVector(5,5,5,5,5,10,'', clRed);
  end;
end;

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[axrDegen]

Hello Yeray,

that's a nice solution, interesting is that I can't get the Labels to work in call "AddVector", like:

AddVector(5,5,5,0,5,5,'Vector A', clRed);

Do you have a solution for that?
Also it would be nice to have real 3D Arrows on top of the Vector lines.

[Yeray]

Hello,

interesting is that I can't get the Labels to work in call "AddVector", like:

AddVector(5,5,5,0,5,5,'Vector A', clRed);

Do you have a solution for that?

Try turning the Marks visible:

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    Marks.Visible:=True;
    Marks.Style:=smsLabel;

Also it would be nice to have real 3D Arrows on top of the Vector lines.

How would you like them to look exactly?

[axrDegen]

Ok, that makes them appear, but all the Labels are displayed together at the center point, please see the screenshot:

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How Can I display the labels at the end of the Arrows?
The Arrowheads I would expect to be shown as a (3D) Cone, see below:

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[Yeray]

Hello,

I'm afraid this is not possible right now.
I've created a new ticket in the public tracker:
http://bugs.teechart.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2161

[axrDegen]

Ok, that is about making it nice, but what about the markers/labels, how can I get these displayed correctly?

[Yeray]

Hello,

but what about the markers/labels, how can I get these displayed correctly?

Sorry, I missed that point.
You could use marks custom positioning at OnGetMarkText event. Ie:

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procedure TForm1.VectorGetMarkText(Sender:TChartSeries; ValueIndex:Integer; var MarkText:String);
begin
  if Assigned(Sender) and (ValueIndex>-1) and (ValueIndex<Sender.count) and
     Assigned(Sender.Marks.Positions) and Assigned(Sender.Marks.Positions[ValueIndex]) then
  begin
    with TVector3DSeries(Sender), Marks.Positions[ValueIndex] do
    begin
      Custom:=True;
      LeftTop:=ParentChart.Canvas.Calculate3DPosition(CalcXPosValue(EndXValues[ValueIndex]),
                                                      CalcYPosValue(EndYValues[ValueIndex]),
                                                      ParentChart.Axes.Depth.CalcPosValue(EndZValues[ValueIndex]));
    end;
  end;
end;

[axrDegen]

Thank you Yeray, that works for X and Y but not for Z, please see screenshot:

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Note that I use the Min/Max of another series to calculate the Max values for the Vectors, like that:

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    MaxX := Max(FPoint3DSeries.MaxXValue, Abs(FPoint3DSeries.MinXValue));
    MaxY := Max(FPoint3DSeries.MaxYValue, Abs(FPoint3DSeries.MinYValue));
    MaxZ := Max(FPoint3DSeries.MaxZValue, Abs(FPoint3DSeries.MinZValue));
    FAxesSeries.AddVector(0,0,0, MaxX,0,0, 'a', clRed);
    FAxesSeries.AddVector(0,0,0, 0,MaxY,0, 'b', clGreen);
    FAxesSeries.AddVector(0,0,0, 0,0,MaxZ, 'c', clBlue);

How to solve that ?

[axrDegen]

I don't really understand that source code anyway, LeftTop (a TPoint value) is set per series Mark via call "Chart.Canvas.Calculate3DPosition"
How is the 3D position (X, Y, Z) coded into a TPoint, which only has X and Y ?
So where do you finally set the Z position of each Mark?

[Yeray]

Hello,

It seems to work fine for me here:

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testVectorArrow2.zip

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I don't really understand that source code anyway, LeftTop (a TPoint value) is set per series Mark via call "Chart.Canvas.Calculate3DPosition"
How is the 3D position (X, Y, Z) coded into a TPoint, which only has X and Y ?
So where do you finally set the Z position of each Mark?

The Calculate3DPosition function converts 3D coordinates to 2D coordinates to be used when custom drawing (ref here)

Calculates and returns the XY position in pixels of the XYZ 3D coordinate.

Can be used when custom drawing using 3D XYZ coordinates, either returned from the axes or not.

[axrDegen]

Thank you, but this doesn't work. I am finally painting the axes labels in the OnAfterDraw event like that:

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    XCent := FAxesSeries.CalcXPosValue(0);
    YCent := FAxesSeries.CalcYPosValue(0);
    ZCent := aChart.Axes.Depth.CalcPosValue(0);
    XPosi := FAxesSeries.CalcXPosValue(FXAxisMax);
    YPosi := FAxesSeries.CalcYPosValue(FYAxisMax) - aChart.Canvas.TextHeight('b');
    ZPosi := aChart.Axes.Depth.CalcPosValue(FZAxisMax);
    aChart.Canvas.TextOut3D(XPosi, YCent, ZCent, 'a');
    aChart.Canvas.TextOut3D(XCent, YPosi, ZCent, 'b');
    aChart.Canvas.TextOut3D(XCent, YCent, ZPosi, 'c');

[Yeray]

Hello,

I am finally painting the axes labels in the OnAfterDraw event

That's another possibility. Does it work as you want?

[axrDegen]

Yes, that works very well

[Yeray]

Yes, that works very well

Great!