Origin's 3 Point Segment graphs offer an alternative to using dashed and/or dotted lines in a line and symbol graph.

Example plots from our Graph Gallery
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3 Point Segment Graph

3 Point Segment Graph Example

This plot type is a special kind of line and symbol graph where the line connection is set to 3 Point Segment automatically.

To create this type of connection, Origin alternates a straight line connection for three points and a no line connection for one point. Thus, every three consecutive data points are connected by a line (the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd data points, the 4th, 5th, and 6th data points, etc.).

Since the 3pt segment plot is made up of both line and scatter graph components, its details are the same and are therefore not covered in a separate page.
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