@Joe-von-Habsburg
Yes you can draw lines on a QGraphicsScene, I never suggested you not use a QChart (or equivalent, QChart is not considered wonderful and it is being replaced by QtGraphs, for all I know that may be better here) for drawing charts, there is a reason that is its own component.
Since I don't know anything about QCharts and zooming I would not know about axes and what the consequences might be. I only know what I wrote and the links I referred you to, which may have alternative approaches.