LightningChart Ultimate SDK

Current version: 5.1.4 (Released May 15th, 2013)

Software development kit consists of the following components

• LightningChart Ultimate
• ChartManager
• SignalGenerator
• SignalReader
• SpectrumCalculator

LightningChart Ultimate for Windows Forms and WPF

LightningChart Ultimate is the fastest 2D and 3D measurement, engineering and research data visualization SDK for .NET and Windows. LightningChart Ultimate is entirely GPU accelerated (Direct3D) and performance optimized data visualization control for presenting masses of data in 2D XY graph, 3D XYZ, polar and 3D pie / donut views.

From v. 5.0 onwards, includes WPF chart too. LightningChart Ultimate for WPF uses low-level DirectX, with graphics routines developed by us. Other WPF charts are built with slow System.Windows.Media graphics routines. Major difference in rendering performance!

LightningChart Ultimate's graph view is especially designed for professional high-speed data acquisition software, PC-based oscilloscopes and signal analyzers, scientific research, G.I.S., medical and other real-time measurement and signal monitoring applications. The graph is optimized for high-speed sampled signal data handling with innovative CPU overhead saving techniques enabling handling of huge data point amounts, where all other chart/graph controls get delayed, frozen or crashed. 3D view makes data visualization available in freely rotatable 3D space. Data can be presented with many different series types with super-fast data processing and rendering features.

Key features

XY Graph view

• Draws huge amounts of measured data as graphs in real-time, very smoothly, up to hundreds of millions of new data points / sec.
• High refresh rate even with heavy load
• Renders vast data sets instantly
• Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock series (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
• Geographic maps can be combined with other XY view series and objects.
• Intensity series are perfect e.g. for environmental data over maps and thermal imaging. Can be rendered inside selected polygons or map regions.
• Zoom, pan and rotate operations
• Built-in series tracking cursors
• Series and chart event marker indicators
• Unlimited X axes/chart, vertical position adjust
• Unlimited Y axes/chart: stacked or layered
• Different X-axis real-time monitoring scrolling modes: Scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
• Automatic scale fitting, grids and divisions
• Fast scale setting with mouse, configurable zoom and pan buttons
• Logarithmic axis scales, advanced features for minimal values between 0...1
• Palette-colored line series by Y value
• Persistent layers - extremely fast rendering of thousands of repetitive line series without rising CPU load or memory footprint
• Persistent intensity layers - heat-map coloring of repetive traces with hit-counters

3D XYZ View

• Real 3D visualization
• Series types: point-line, bar, surface mesh, surface grid, waterfall, mesh models
• Gigantic surface sizes of over 2000x2000
• Height/Toned/Point coloring for surfaces and waterfall
• 3D rectangles with image fill
• Contour lines and wireframing for surfaces and waterfall
• Many lighting and shading options
• 3D models can be imported from CAD and modeling applications, as X-file
• Perspective and orthographic 3D camera, with pre-defined setups
• Zoom, pan and rotate operations, axis range adjust by mouse
• Logarithmic axis scales, advanced features for minimal values between 0...1

Geographic maps & G.I.S.

• World, continents, specific areas
• Dozens of maps
• Multi-layer: land, lakes, rivers, roads, cities etc.
• High/Mid/Low resolutions
• Map import from ESRI shape file data
• On-the-fly silent map layer replace/import for frequently updated SHP data
• Polygon and vector based objects
• Background image setting from satellite photo
• Fast rendering
• Mouse interactive objects
• Several fill and style options: individual or common layer based
• Many coordinate formats
• Border points and other data can be accessed from objects
• Digital elevation model (DEM) data can be presented with IntensityGrid (ViewXY) or IntensityGrid3D (View3D) series, with contour lines
• 3D models can placed in View3D

Polar view

• Series types: area, point-line
• Several amplitude and angle axes
• Sectors
• Markers

3D pies / donuts

• Freely rotatable 3D visualization
• Pie and donut styles
• Dimension adjustment
• Exploded slices
• Mouse interactive
• Predefined lighting schemes

General

• Comprehensive user interface customization: Fonts, alpha colors, line styles, point styles, bitmaps, fills, blinking effects, anti-aliased lines
• Scrollbars with 64-bit value range
• Annotations for labeling and tagging any information, and to be used as a general-purpose vector drawing objects. Move, scale and rotate by mouse.
• Print with print preview
• Copy to clipboard and export as BMP/JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF files. XY graph also in WMF, EMF and SVG.
• Series data export to MS Excel as CSV
• Full 64-bit support. Utilizes over 2 GB memory (in 64-bit systems).
• Available as .NET2 and .NET4 builds
• Royalty-free distribution