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Y axis zero is not zero!!

I have a waveform graph in which I plot positive and negative values in the order of 1E-9, and the format is set to SI notation with 1 digit of presicion. So the values in the Y-axis look like -5.0n, -4.0n, ... 4.0n, 5.0n.
My problem is that the central value in the Y-axis is not 0!. It's always something like -413.6E-27 or -608.5E-30, which looks quite annoying. It happens either if the Y-axis in set in Autoscale mode as if I set manually (or programatically) the Max, Min and Increment values for the axis.
I don't want to do something like multiplying the values to be plotted by 1E9 and then set the format to floating point Notation.
Does anybody know another way of handling this?
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You could right click on one of the scale numbers,
select "Style" and choose a style that does not show
the central value. It's not ideal, in that it doesn't
show any number, but it may be less annoying than
showing the large negative exponent.

Les.Hammer@CompleteTest.com
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> My problem is that the central value in the Y-axis is not 0!. It's
> always something like -413.6E-27 or -608.5E-30, which looks quite
> annoying. It happens either if the Y-axis in set in Autoscale mode as
> if I set manually (or programatically) the Max, Min and Increment
> values for the axis.

This tends to happen using the newer autoranging formatting. The
formatting will do this in indicators, controls, and even on scales when
the value is very very close to but not exactly zero. Your easiest fix
is to use a different numeric formatting style until this gets fixed.

Greg McKaskle
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