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Scientific notation as the default for axis setting

Voetzl — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:50:58 GMT

Hi,

everytime I open the graph builder, even everytime I change the data column, the scale always resets to "best", which is extremly annoying as I've got data in the range of 1e-6 to 1e-9 and I do not want to count those 8 zeros.

Is there a way to set scientific as the default? Even opening the graph builder via a script including axis setting scientific does not work..

Thank you!

Re: Scientific notation as the default for axis setting

jthi — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:41:04 GMT

Impossible to say why it wouldn't work as a script as you didn't provide the script and JMP version. If you are changing the column with Column Switcher, enable "Retain Axis Settings"

Alo, you could set that to your column's axis column property (and then you could create a tag for it to make it easier to add to other columns).

If you are usually creating similar type of plots, you could save it as a preset.

Re: Scientific notation as the default for axis setting

Voetzl — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:57:00 GMT

Thank you, I obviously wasn't clear enough on what I did and what I was searching for.

I am using JMP 19 Basic and I've got lots of those plots where I need the scientific y-axis. Therefore, I wanted to create a template where and empty graph builder is opened, with y-axis settings set to scientific (and log), which is not working (as the y-axis setting always reset when changing columns).

However, I did not know about the Columns switcher, which seems to be even simpler to use than such a script. Thank you!