Step This scrollbar allows the step size of the smoothing window to be changed. The step is the distance that the window is moved between smoothing calculations It can be set by the plot window distance or number of points. Smoothing is done on the view of the data in the plotting window, for example, it will work on an arbitrary projection shown in the tour. In terms of distance the smallest width provided by the scrollbar is min(100,width/10), and the maximum is max(32768/9~3641,width/3) . In terms of number of points the smallest is 1 and the largest is width/3. The step size does depend on the actual window size so the two scrollbars don't always work independently.