Viz Artist User Guide

Version 3.14 | Published October 30, 2020 ©

Visual Data Tools

Overview

Visual Data Tools (VDT) show any kind of statistic data. All the VDT plug-ins use the Shared Memory transport channel.

Shared Memory is a map which has user defined variables, indexed by a string, also known as a key-value pair. There are three types of Shared Memory Maps.

For more information about Shared Memory see Shared Memory (SHM).

The VDT plug-in suite consists of:

  • Geometry plug-ins: Used to draw the chart (detailed in this section).

  • Container Plug-ins: Used to label, data scale, etc., the chart.

To learn more about the use of Visual Data Tools, download a tutorial on www.vizrt.com under the Training section.

The following Geometry plug-ins are located in the Visual Data Tools folder:

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