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

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.

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.

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

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.)

Right click on the contour plot created from XYZ data and choose "Generate Grid" to generate the grid data.

In the pop-up dialog,  can export the grid to XYZ data or matrix.

Error bar is supported in 100% stacked column/bar plot.

Add Interval Plot under the Plot:Statistics.  Interval Plot plots the mean and 95% confidence interval for grouped data. 

ORG-12927,

ORG-13065

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

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

Show Legend along Plot by Attaching Data Label on a Single Point or several points

Add GUI to allow the access to the leader line setting

Color, width, direction, shape of the leader line in 3D plot can be changed.

ORG-11816

ORG-10371

ORG-12357

Legend text follow legend symbol color. Also works for color scale.

right click legend to enable object property. Setting color to Auto will have the color of the label follow the color of the symbol.

This is also support for regular text label. If there is %(n) substitution notation(s) and color is set to Auto, it will use the 1st substitution notation's corresponding plot's color for the whole text

Also works for color scale label

Show color scale as blocks of colors and their corresponding range

1. In the Color Scale Control dialog, we can change the display format of the labels from just showing a value to showing a range. (see the result)

2. Allow color bar to be separated.

3. the result：

Notation to Alignment different portions of text in multiple line

add "\^()" as cell anchor, use alignment from the whole text object "\^(l)", "\^(c)", "\^(r)" are LEFT,

CENTER and RIGHT alignment respectively.

"^(lu)" means the text before and after this anchor is a unit, the part before and the part after will not be added extra space by drag and control. But the part before and after "^(lu)" will still consider the alignment separately, like it contain 2nd level.

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

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

Add Incremental option in Plot Detail dialog under Layer level allowing draw small blocks first.

If two blocks are of equal size, can let them show side by side by check the "Show Overlapped Column/bar" box.

ORG-12531

ORG-13371

ORG-13380

Specify subgroup according to its column label

In the plot detail of grouped box chart plot, allow the color of the box to map to which level of the group which is very useful for dataset with unbalanced group size.  

1. if color is set to vary between subgroups, each group starts with same color(red here) although the size of each group differs(3-4-3 here).

2. If color is set to vary within subgroups:

Stack plot support groups defined by column label

In stack column/bar plot, if subgroup is set based on column label, then we can have the column/bar to stack based on that subgroup.

In this case, subgroup are set based on "Parameters" . 

The resulting bars are colored and stacked based on this subgroup. 

Grouped box chart plot from raw data can sort plot order by group info

Add a check box "sort By Group Labels" to allow nested sorting of the box labels:

Before sorting, boxes are ordered by appearance order.

After sorting, boxes are ordered alphabetically on each group label.

Under the Pattern tab in plot detail dialog, user can set the filled pattern with index referencing to other dataset. 

A new tab "Pattern List is" is added when increment or indexing is selected in fill pattern where user can customize the pattern list.

Add scaling factor for both X and Y direction

Set Multiplier for each plots to enlarge some details.

Keep Proportion of Stack Lines by Offset on Log Scale

By checking Keep Propertion of Plot Range, user can still see details of each stacked plot on nonlinear log scale.

ORG-8933,

ORG-13633

Under the Miscellaneous tab in the page level dialog of the graph, add the option Match modifiers by( for template and copy format) that allow users to customize the modifier mapping method when copy format and plot with template. Users can fetch the modifier column by  <offset> ,longname , shortname, etc. 

In this case, two plots are made from col(B) and col(C). In Graph1, the color of the points are mapped to col(D) with longname color.  Setting Match  Modifiers by to longname makes the plot2 colormap to the column with the same column longname, col(D) in this case. If set Match Modifiers by to <offset>, the color mapping column will be specified by the relative position to the plotting column. 

The tooltip in the plot detail dialog of the plot shows the modifier match method.

Y-Value color mapping was only supported for line plots including waterfall plots. Since Origin 2016, we added it for plot plot types that support colormapping.

E.g. 

1. Import Group.dat under Samples\Graphing folder.
2. Select column B, C and D to plot them as scatter graph.
   --> Each plot has a unique color, e.g. B is black, C is red and D is blue.
3. If you want to map color of the points to corresponding Y values, click on any scatter point
4. Click Line/Border Color  dropdown list on Style toolbar.
5. Go to By Points tab, choose Y-Value: Color Mapping.
   --> Each point is colored based on the Y values.

When using Y-Value Color Mapping. Origin find the min and max of all Y plots in the group and build colormap levels.

On Plot Details dialog, you will see on Group tab, color's Increment column is set to None, while on Symbol tab, Symbol Color is set to Y-Value: Color Mapping. 

On Colormap tab, the Levels are from min to max of all Y columns in the group of plots.

For column/bar or area plots, the color control is on Pattern tab.

Smart Plotting from Cloneable Template and New Template Library

ORG-12416,

ORG-11004

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

Adjust line space between lines in Text Object including Legend

Change the line spaces in the properties of text object:

1. Go to Property in the menu contents of the legend and make changes in the Line Spacing

2. The gap between lines is enlarged.

When merging graphs,  now allow to put label to different positions of the plot.  inside or outside, left or right.

ORG-12903

ORG-5396

Set Layer Width or Height by Common Scale

In Layer Management and Merge Graph Windows dialogs, check boxes to set layer width or height by commonb scale are added.

Before and after setting layer height to common scale.

Align linked Layers at Specified Value

In Plot Details dialog, when linking Axis, choose Align, Two layers will be aligned at the specified value.

Can also align layers in Layer Management dialog

In Plot Setup Dialog, add a Preview button that gives a preview of the plot.

Support different matrix display method.

More option for tick and label show hide in GUI

Can set whether changing of one layer apply to all the other layers in page level.

ORG-12795

ORG-13226

Set Graph short name and long name during batch plotting

Right click the graph page, select Duplicate(Batch Plotting) to bring up the dialog.

1. Set graph short name and long name using metadata

E.g. in image blow, Graph Short Name is set as 1st plot's Worksheet Display Name.

Graph Long Name is set as each layer's 1st plot's column long name connected with dash.

Corresponding LT syntax shows in the boxes.

2. Select worksheet or columns to batch plot and click OK. Graph names are set accordingly.

Preset Graph short name and long name in template

When plotting Graph with this template, the graph short name and long name will be set so.

In Origin 2016, if user mark a graph template as cloneable during saving, user can directly clone a new graph with new data using such template. 

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-12737,

ORG-12710

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

1. Now supports dragging the special tick labels individually to customize its position. 
2. The special tick font can be customized via toolbar.

How to...

1. Go to the plot detail of a graph. Select the Size/Speed tab under the layer level.

2. When the box before Link Axis Length to Scale with X:Y is checked, we can link the graph axis length to the scale by any ratio.

Before linking the size to scale.

Set the link ratio to 1, axis length to scale ratio is the same for x and y.

Use discrete as plot scale type to skip weekend when plotting

When plotting financial graph where there is no trading on weekends and holidays, there used to be a gap in axis.

But now in Origin 2016, by using Discrete scale type, there will be no such gaps and the data will look more cotinuous.

This is the default setting for all plot types under Plot: Stock: menu.

If Discrete is set as scale type, no gap between candle sticks.

Old way: Axis Scale is Linear, there are gaps on weekend and holidays.

Basically if Discrete is set as scale type, missing data is not plotted and continuity preserves.

Add a Line option under Plot: Stock menu and the toolbar

If make line plot with Plot:Stock:Plot, x axis scale type is set to discrete by default.

Allow base line position to be customized

Now baseline position can be set to any value while keep the axis unmoved.

before specifying the baseline.

After setting the baseline to y = 0.6. The x axis is unchanged.

In Origin 2016 SR0, Origin has implemented the contour triangulation algorithm to be based on raw X and Y data instead of normalized X and Y data as used in old treatment. To revert to old behavior, you can run the command below in Script Window or Command Window and refresh to see:

page.triangulationnormalizedata=1;

In Origin 2016 SR3, there is GUI access to revert.

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.

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

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.

Define and access Project Variables in Set Column Values dialog