Before Drawing On A Graph; Saving And Recalling Drawn Pictures - Texas Instruments TI-86 Manual Book

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Chapter 6: Graph Tools
Graph database (GDB) and
picture (PIC) variable names
can be from one to eight
characters long. The first
character must be a letter.
The next section describes
how to draw lines, points,
curves, and text onto a
graph; you then can store the
drawings to a variable.
PIC

Before Drawing on a Graph

All drawings are temporary; they are not stored in a graph database. Any action that causes
Smart Graph to replot the graph erases all drawings. Therefore, before you use any drawing
tool, consider whether you want to perform any of these graphing activities first.
Change a mode setting that affects graphs
Select, deselect, or edit a current function or stat plot
Change the value of a variable used in a selected function
Change a window variable value
Change a graph format setting or graph style
Clear current drawings with

Saving and Recalling Drawn Pictures

To store the elements that define the current graph to a graph database (
select from the
STGDB GRAPH
Equation editor functions
Graph style settings
To recall the stored
GDB
variable from the
GDB GRAPH RCGDB
in the replaces any current information of these types.
GDB
To store the current graph display, including drawings, to a picture (
from the menu. Only the graph picture is stored to the specified
STPIC GRAPH
To superimpose one or more stored graph pictures onto a graph later, select
menu, and then select the
GRAPH
CLDRW
menu. These information types are stored to a
later, select from the
RCGDB
menu. When you recall a
variable from the
PIC
GDB
Window variable values
Format settings
menu, and then select the
GRAPH
, the information stored
GDB
) variable, select
PIC
menu.
GRAPH RCPIC
) variable,
variable:
GDB
variable.
PIC
from the
RCPIC