Help Articles are product support tips and information straight from the NV5 Geospatial Technical Support team developed to help you use our products to their fullest potential.

This Help Article describes the IDL command history and provides a work-around to save your history without closing IDL.

With IDL Object Graphics, plotting two graphics with different data extents in the same graphic window requires normalizing the range of the second graphic to fit the extension of the first one. If not, the two graphics will not fit within the same view.

IDL includes a routine called FILLPLOT which allows to create horizontal filled plots. However it does not support vertical filled plots:

https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/FILLPLOT.html

The easiest way to build vertical filled plots is then to use the POLYGON routine instead:

https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/POLYGON.html