Origin 2016 Highlights on YouTube
Top Features
Ease of Use
- Improved Color control: More Colors to pick from, Recent Color remembered, and Easier way to pick Custom Colors
- Dockable Object Manager to easily Show or Hide Plots on Graph
- Smart Plotting from Cloneable Template and New Template Library
- 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
- Data Labeling on Indiced Points Only and More Label Format Controls
- 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
- Multi-layer Graph Improvements: Set Layer Width or Height by Common Scale and Align Layers with Specified Value
- Set Graph window Short and Long Name during Batch Plot and in Graph Template
Analysis
- Word template with Bookmark for Report Creation in Batch Processing
- Batch Process improvements: set Script Before Process, and append results by columns.
- Peak Analysis Improvements: Snap to Spectrum, Relative Baseline, Set Upper and Lower Bound of Peaks, etc.
- Provide GUI for customization of LR report table on graph
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: Import Multiple Files into Cloned Book/Sheets, 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 for importing
Programming
Addon Tools for 2016
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. LaTex and ODESolver for now.
There is a new dockable window called Apps on left edge of Origin workspace. Click the icon to launch the App.
- Insert LaTex Equation. Active graph window. Click the LaTex button in Apps window.
- Solve Ordinary Differential Equations
- Object Identification (NA)
- Shape file support. (NA)
- Easily add a map as background image on a graph. Maps are obtained from free online services. (NA)