Differences Between Sound and Vibration Toolkit Waterfall Graph and 3D Graph Waterfall

Updated Mar 18, 2026

Reported In

Software

  • LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit
  • LabVIEW

Issue Details

The Sound and Vibration Toolkit has a Waterfall Graph while the Graph palette has a 3D Graph Waterfall. Can you provided some guidance on the differences between the two? 

Solution

The difference between the Sound and Vibration (S&V) Toolkit Waterfall Graph and the 3D Graph Waterfall is that the S&V Waterfall Graph is natively compatible with other S&V functions. 

The main advantage to using the native S&V graphs is that no extra conversion is needed for manipulating the data and graphs. This makes it much easier to use with the rest of the toolkit. 
 
The 3D Graph Waterfall requires you to convert the data into the 3D waterfall datatype using Plot Helper (Matrix) VI. An example is available in the NI Example Finder by navigating to Help>> Find Examples... and searching for Waterfall. There you will find the 3D Waterfall Graph.vi, which shows how set up a Waterfall 3D Graph.