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Origin 2016 Highlights


The table below only lists some highlights of Origin 2016. To see more features in 2016, please use the navigation bar on the left panel of this page.

Origin Interface

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ORG-13548Enable/Disable Collapsible Menus from Tools:Options

User can disable/enable collapsible menus by check box in Miscellaneous tab of Tools:Options.

ORG-10737



Dockable Object Manager to easily Show or Hide Plots on a Graph

Hide and show plots using Object Manager

  • Select an element item in the Object Manager to select the corresponding element in the graph window and Vice Versa.
  • Show group level for the data plot if there is grouped data.
  • Show/hide plots by checking/unchecking the box before the object name. The object name corresponds to the legend name through translation mode.


Useful context menu tools inside Object Manager

  • Hide/Show a set of plots with the same name.
  • Change the order of plots in the same layer.
  • Change the plot style.
  • Go to Plot detail, Plot Setup, Layer Content from object manager.


For 3D Scatter plots, XY Projection, ZX Projection, YZ Projection items are included in object manager as well.

ORG-12904GUI to Rename Plots with Loose Data (2D function plot & virtual matrix)

Set the short name of the 2D function plot

Under the label tab of the Create 2D Function Plot dialog, we can set the Function short name.


Short name or long name of the loose data can be changed in plot detail dialog

Open the plot detail dialog of a 2D function plot or virtual matrix plot, we can change the short name or long name of the plot.

Clicking the small button besides the name will toggle between long name and short name.

ORG-12763Support flip color increment list

Allow the order of colors in the color list or the order of shapes in the shape list be flipped. 

When the Symbol Color is set to increment, can flip the order in the Color List tab. This also applies to the symbol shape.

ORG-12900

ORG-12835,

ORG-13450

Use tab style dialog for more analysis and statistics tools

Changed the dialog to be tab-based for the analysis/statistics tools with long trees, especially those statistics tools.

User can change back to old GUI by setting system variable @TSD to 0. (Choose Tools: System Variables... menu. Enter TSD as Variable and enter 0 as Value.)


Graphing

New Graph Types

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Labels, Legend, Color Scale and Bubble Scale

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ORG-12927,

ORG-13065

Easier Way to Annotate Graph with Data or Label in Worksheet and Project&Window Information

Support inserting variables from worksheet cell into text (only for graph)

Add a button in Insert Variable dialog, which can hunt worksheet cell and then insert it:

  1. The substitution text will be in the form of (n, @WT, col, row).
  2. It supports both label area and data area.


  3. Also support selecting data range.
     


Additional Info (%G, %X, %H) in Plot level for Insert Variable Dialog

In the Insert Variable Dialog, if the root folder(root node) of the worksheet(graph) on the right panel is selected, we are able to insert: 

1. Active Window Name //%H
2. Project Path //%X, only show when the project was saved once
3. Project Name //%G, only show when the project was saved once

into the graph or worksheet.

Worksheet insert variable dialog:

Graph insert variable dialog:

ORG-6449

Annotation Tool: Customize Display Label, including metadata support, etc.

Allow to customize the format of the annotation added to the plot. It is available for 2D XY plot and polar, and contour from both XYZ data and matrix.

How to...

  1. Select an annotation object, right click and select Customize Label to open the Annotation dialog.
  2. in the Label Form we can specify the quantities or dataset used to create the annotation.
  3. If Custom is selected, Format label is opened up and format string/Labtalk scripts can be entered, and multiple notations and arbitrary fixed strings can be combined as desired. The > button lists the frequently used notations.
  4. Apply to can apply the format to the annotations of the current object, the objects in the current layer or all the objects inside the graph window.

Plot Manipulation

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ORG-373

New, Powerful Color Chooser: Larger Color Collection, Easier Way to Pick Custom Colors, and Recent Colors

New Color chooser for all elements in Origin that supports color customizatin, such as plots, axis, text labels, graphic object, cells in worksheet, etc.

  • Set color as Single, By Points or By Plots
  • Large Selection of Color Lists with Varying Luminance
  • New Custom color dialog with Color Picker
  • Save/load Custom color lists
  • Recent Colors list


Color button-menus for various type of single plot is improved: 

  1. Support more colors.  In the dropdown list of More colors, user can choose a color list and luminosity variations for each color are generated automatically as a table that user can choose from.
  2. Custom color can be changed by Ctrl+click the colorbox. This is indicated via tooltip in colorbox.  Also Custom dropdown list provide users more flexibility to customize the color. 
  3. Added a single row of "Recent Colors"  .

   

Custom dropdown list:  User can load increment color list, save user's own color list and edit existing color list, etc. 

 


Customer color dialog is improved.  Add eye drop tool so that user has more freedom to choose color any where on the screen


Users can customize the color of the plots through toolbar control icons and the tab style color selection fly-out offers user more options for color control of the plots. 

By Points tab:

  1. Index/RGB/map the color of lines/symbols/area of each curve to columns. 
  2. map the color to the values of whole dataset using y-value mapping.
  3. Color using increment color list which can be edited in the plot detail dialog. 

   


By Plots tab:

  1. Each curve are colored with a increment color list.
  2. Each curve are colored with palettes.

  

      3.  The increment list or palettes for "by plots" coloring can also be adjusted in the group tab in plot detail dialog. 


ORG-12624Map line style and line width to another column

In the plot detail dialog, can set the style and width of the line to be mapped to a column.












Graph Page and Layer

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ORG-12495, ORG-12522, ORG-13209, ORG-13664

Smart Plotting from Cloneable Template and New Template Library

Save Template As Dialog Changes

  • Mark as Cloneable Template

  • Preset Graph Short Name and Long Name

  • add "Match modifiers by" to Save template dialog

  • Still support plotting from built-in system template.

  • Clone Graph from Plot: User Templates: menu

  • Template Library only Shows User-Defined Templates

ORG-12416,

ORG-11004

Switch Layer or Create New, and Move Plot Order in a Group in Layer Contents Dialog

Switch Layer or Create New to easily add or remove plots on different layers in graph

  • Switch between layers in Layer Contents dialog to easily add plot(s) to each layer.

  • Create new layersand add plots to it in Layer Contents dialog.


Change the order of plots within a group

Change plot order within a group with no need to ungroup first



Axis 

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ORG-12737,

ORG-12710

Set Global Axis Units and Scientific tick label Display in Tools: Options Dialog

Various unit formats to choose from in Tools:Options:Axis

Different unit format are now supported and can be selected in Options dialog.


More Scientific Format Display Control

Different scientific format displays can be selcted in the options dialog.







3D and Contour

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ORG-134253D waterfall plot supports both line and symbol

In the Plot Detail dialog of 3D waterfall plot,  add Symbol tab to allow plotting symbols.  Both 2D and 3D symbols are supported.

Display of the 3D waterfall plot with symbols.






Analysis

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ORG-11102Gadget: Add new column for category info in Cluster gadget

How to...

  1. Select the interested datapoints on the plot.
  2. In the Cluster Gadget dialog, click the Add Categories button.
  3. In the Create Categorical Value dialog,  give a name to the new group(CustomerGroup ) and names(group3) for each category. 


       4.  This will generate a new column in the source data which denotes the category info of each points.


          5.   Data points can be recolored referring to the new category info.

ORG-13318Fitting: Display Nonlinear Equation with Values in Fitting Report Table in Graph

In Nonlinear fitting dialog, add "Equation in Notes" in the Output section that user can choose to display the equation with fitted parameter values. 

ORG-11945,

ORG-5211, 

ORG-3207


Gadget: Statistics Gadgets Improvements

Improvements on statistics gadget

On ROI Box tab,

  1. Add more flexibility of controlling Mean Line such as Style, Width, Color.
  2. Can show SD line as well.
  3. Add Line Length dropdown list with options: Within ROI Box, Span to Layer, Custom.

Tag Line(s) option is added in the fly-out menu.

User can click it to add Mean&SD lines and labels in graph.

Move or delete the gadget will not remove the tags.


Add curve translate gadget

When click the > button. Now the customer can:

  1. switch between horizontal translate and vertical translate.
  2. Can set the translate mode to stack offset(source data doesn't change) or data update.
  3. Translate Duplication in allows to save the updated data to new columns, new sheet, or new book.
  4. If grouped data are plotted, can specify the curve to translate by Change data.










Data Processing

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ORG-12971

Define and access Project Variables in Set Column Values dialog

Allow inserting project variable in Set Column Value dialog.

How to...

  1. Inside SCV dialog, Clicking Variables:Project Variables:More... will bring up Project Variables dialog.
  2. Can create/delete project variables and can copy the variable name to avoid typo.
  3. The project variable names will be listed under the menu context under Project Variable.

ORG-13044Edit: Select... menu to Select or Hide Columns by Column Label Rows or Skipping

Choose Edit: Select... menu will open Select dialog where user can easily select and hide columns which fit the column label string, or by select N columns and skip M columns.

Since it's a modeless dialog, you can keep this dialog open and keep on doing selection and plotting or analysis. 

Note: if the column label row has numbers, you can even set the >, <, etc. as conditions to select such columns. 

Select or Hide Columns by Column Label Rows

  1. In the dialog, choose Mode: By Column Label
  2. Pick column label row and set matching condition and string
  3. Click Test - select if True to select. Click Hide button to hide selected columns


Select or Hide Columns by Skipping

  1. n the dialog, choose Mode: By Select N columns and Skip M columns
  2. Pick column label row and set matching condition and string
  3. Click Test - Select if True to select. Click Hide button to hide selected columns



Importing



Exporting and Presentation



Batch Processing



Project and Data Management



Programming and Connectivity

JIRASUMMARYDETAILS
ORG-12610X-Function: For X-Function based tools, Ctrl + Click on menu to view code behind it

Ctrl click the menu item will open up the XF in X-Function Builder




Other

JIRASUMMARYDETAILS
ORG-11972Nested Sorting in Project Explorer, Layer Contents dialog, and Dataset Browsers with Shift key

Nested sorting will be helpful for customers to quickly find 

Supported in Detailed View of Project Explorer

Left Panel of Layer Contents dialog

Column/Dataset/Matrix Browsers in different analysis tools that supports multiple Input.


PE now support nested sort that allowing files to be sorted within each group

  1. Start with files disordered by both type and short name in the PE.

2. Click Type to sort the files by type first, notice that they are still disordered by short name.

3. Want to sort by short name within each type group, Hold shift key and click Short Name. Now within each type, files are sorted by short name.


Layer contents dialog now supports nested sort

The Long Name is sorted within each Book group:


Dataset Browser supports nested sort

The Long Name is sorted within each Book group:












Origin 2016 Highlights on YouTube

Top Features

Ease of Use

Graphing

Analysis

Statistics

Import and Export

Programming


Apps 

We will continue to make more Add-in tools available for Origin 2016. To find out what is available, choose Tools: Apps on File Exchange: menu and see what's available there. E.g. Insert Map Images, Plot Submatrix and ODESolver for now.

There is a new dockable window called Apps on the right edge of Origin workspace. Click the icon to launch the App.

  • Solve Ordinary Differential Equations
  • Heat Map with Dendrogram
  • Tangent
  • Plot Sub matrix
  • Send Graphs to Word
  • Simple Fit
  • Maps Online


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