In this section, we will discuss how to create meters and gauges using ChartDirector through a number of examples.

Title	Description
Semicircle Meter	Demonstrates the basic steps in creating a semicircle meter.
Color Semicircle Meters	Demonstrates semicircle meters in various gradient colors, as well as various color scales and pointer types.
Black Semicircle Meters	Demonstrates semicircle meters with black background, silver border and glare effect.
White Semicircle Meters	Demonstrates semicircle meters with a soft white background and a silver border.
Semicircle Meter with Readout	Demonstrates semicircle meters configured with a large pointer cap to display the meter value.
Round Meter	Demonstrates the basic steps in creating a round meter.
Color Round Meters	Demonstrates round meters in various gradient colors, as well as various color scales, and different types of scale angles.
Black Round Meters	Demonstrates round meters with black background, silver border and glare effect.
White Round Meters	Demonstrates round meters with a soft white background and a silver border.
Neon Round Meters	This examples demonstrates various shading effects to create round meters with a neon look and feel. Also demonstrates how to create meters that can easily be resized.
Round Meters with Readout	Demonstrates round meters configured with a large pointer cap to display the meter value.
Rectangular Angular Meters	Demonstrates rectangular angular meters.
Square Angular Meters	Demonstrates angular meters of which the pointers are pivoted at the corners of squares.
Angular Meter Pointers (1)	Demonstrates adding multiple classical pointers of different styles to a meter.
Angular Meter Pointers (2)	Demonstrates adding multiple new style pointers of different styles to a meter.
Icon Angular Meter	Demonstrates a fuel-tank like meters, in which the meter is labelled by an icon and the scale shows text abbreviations.