Top Features
Ease of Use
- Dockable Object Manager to easily Show or Hide Plots on Graph
- Clone Graph from Graph Template and Redesign of Template Library Dialog
- Switch Layer or Create New, and Move Plot Order in a Group in Layer Contents Dialog
- Set Units and Scientific tick label display in Tools: Options.
- Easier Way to Annotate Graph with Data or Label in Worksheet and Project&Window Information
- Annotation Tool: Customize Display Label, including metadata support, etc.
- Define and access Project Variables in Set Column Values dialog
- Edit: Select... menu to select or hide columns by column label
- Nested Sorting in Project Explorer, Layer Contents dialog, and Dataset Browsers with Shift key
Graphing
- New Axis scale type: Discrete to support skipping weekend and holidays in financial plots
- Line-spacing Control of Multi-line Text Object in Graph
- Legend and Color Scale improvements such as legend text following symbol color, color scale showing as color blocks with corresponding range
- Plot Column/Bar from Non-Zero Baseline by Setting it as Additional Line Values
- Set each layer's width or height proportional to its axis range in multi-layer graph
- Customize graph window name with column, workbook and sheet information in Batch Plot
Analysis
- Word template with Bookmark for Report Creation
- Batch Process improvements: set Script Before Process, and append results by columns.
- PA Improvements to save better themes for Batch PA Processing: Snap to Spectrum; Relative Baseline; Sequentially Initializing Parameter Values
Statistics
- New statistics analysis tools such as Three-way ANOVA, Partial Correlation, Cross Tabulation
- Improvements such as Means Comparison on Interaction Combinations in Two-Way ANOVA and t-Test for Summarized Data
Import and Export
- Send Graphs to PowerPoint improvement: Specify what graphs to send and in what order. Insert new slides for each graph and copy start slide style to easily sending graphs to a pre-defined Powerpoint file or template.
- improvement of import ASCll & Excel: run Script after import after ASCII, CSV, SPC and EXCEL import and set Column Plot Designation in ASCII and Excel Import
- Support more 3rd party data file formats
Programming
- R language. R Console or RServe Console
- Labtalk Script speed improvements.
Addon Tools for 2016
We will continue to make more Add-in tools available for Origin 2016. To find out what is available, visit the File Exchange page of originlab.com.
- Insert LaTex Equation.
- Object Identification
- Solve Ordinary Differential Equations
- Shape file support.
- Easily add a map as background image on a graph. Maps are obtained from free online services.