Origin 2023 Features
- Snow Li
- Billy Wang
- Penny Mok
Graphing
New Graph Types
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-25247 | Double-Y on the same Layer | Specify which Y-axis to plot against for multiple plots on the same layer. |
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ORG-16520, ORG-25110 | Before - After Graph and Double Y Box Chart | Easy way to plot Before After Graph and Double Y Box Chart
| The Double-Y in one Layer feature makes plotting Before After Graph and Double Y Box Chart much easier in Origin 2023. Note: Line Series is a variation of box chart. After plotting Line series or box chart, click on the line series or box(es) and use mini toolbar to select Plot on Right Y. Note: For plots already set to plot on right Y, the mini toolbar button will be changed to Plot on Left Y. The mini toolbar button is also available when choosing plot(s) in Object Manager. (L) or (R) indicator shows in front of plot to indicate current axis assignment. Before and After 
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ORG-18926 | Vector Plot in Ternary Vector | Support Vector Plot in Ternary Coordinate |
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ORG - 24531 | 3D Stacked Heatmap | Support a new plot type 3D Heatmap with flatted surface and fill to grid. | 
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General
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-25449 | Improvements on Export Graph (Advanced) | Added hotkey Ctrl+Alt+G to export with last used theme. Added a clickable link on messages log to view exported graph |
0 = message with file path
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ORG-25233 | Toggle layer, plot & graphic object’s selectability | LabTalk command and mini toolbar button to set whether or not layer, plot, or graphic objects are selectable. |
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ORG-25555 | Multi-layer graph arrangement direction | Choose Horizontal First or Vertical First when arranging multi-panel graphs. | Direction control in Merge Graph Windows, Merge Graphs to Layout, Arrange Layers, and Layer Management dialogs.  Example 1: When merging 6 graphs into a multi-panel graph, e.g. 2 x 3, there is now an option to specify arranging horizontally first or vertically first. Example 2: Suppose there is a 2 x 3 panel graph which was arranged horizontally first. Choose Graph: Arrange Layers… to switch the number of rows and columns to 3 x 2 and Direction: Vertical First—the panels will be transposed. 
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ORG-25430 | Set default reference line style | Right click reference line to set it as default reference line style for future use | Origin 2023 supports saving a customized reference line format as a default style. When adding reference lines in the future, it will use these settings.
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ORG-21351 | More reference line label locations | More label location options for reference lines | More Label Location options in Reference Lines tab in Axis dialog.  Old options Options in older versions:  Also on mini toolbar when clicking on reference line in graph. 
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ORG-25452 | Add Reference Line on axis with divide by factor | Use converted value to add reference line and label | If Divide by Factor is set for tick labels of axis, the tick labels on the graph will show the converted value. When adding a reference line, use the converted value. When checking Label for reference line, show the converted value. E.g. For scales from 0 to 10, if the tick label is set to have divide by a factor of 100, the tick labels will show as 0 to 0.10. Please add reference line based on tick label range displayed in axis. E.g. 0.035. When reference line label shows, it will show 0.035. Used to show 3.5. In older versions, when adding reference line 0.035, on axis dialog, it converted it to 3.5, and it was confusing since the value wasn’t within the display range of axis. |
ORG-25466 | Stack plot improvements | Support stacking plot horizontally without exchanging XY Axis | Choose Plot: Multi-panel/Axis: Stack… menu Plots can be stacked horizontally without exchanging X-Y axes. It works well with Orientation: Landscape. Note: In previous versions, there were only Vertical or Horizontal(X-Y Axes Exchanged) options. 
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Batch Plotting Short Name | Better handling of Batch Plotting Short Name numbers | A Short Name starting with G09 will increment to G10 instead of G010. | |
ORG-20137 | Data highlight mode when switching to worksheet | System variable to quit data highlight mode when switching to worksheet | Set System Variable @QDHT=1, data highlight some data points in graph and switch to worksheet, escape the data highlight mode and allow to plot directly with partial data selected. Default value is 0, data highlight mode kept when switching to worksheet. |
ORG-24869 | Adjust the size of minor tick labels | Font Scaler (%) control on Minor Tick Labels tab | Set minor tick label font size to be relative to major tick label font size. 
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ORG-25350 | Fit Layers to Page more accurate | Boundary is more accurate after fitting layers to page and LabTalk command is added | The margin for Fit Layer to Page is more accurate in graph. Added LabTalk commands to specify each margin separately. -ml value // for left margin
-mt value // for top margin
-mr value // for right margin
-mb value // for bottom marginAll the margin values can be negative, if necessary. For example, using the following will make the graph look tighter to also accommodate for text object rectangles of the axis titles being too large. page -FLS -u -c 3 -ml -0.005 -mt 0.001 -mb -0.005 -mr 0.001 |
ORG-25023 | Keep Graph and Worksheet size in layout window when copying and pasting | Hold Alt key and then paste graph or worksheet in layout to another layout window to keep the size | Added the hot key Alt when copying and pasting images, graphs, and worksheet objects among layout or graph windows. Hold Alt while pasting graph or worksheet objects from one layout to another will retain the size properties of the copied selection. |
ORG-25375 | Column/bar type in plotmyaxes Dialog | Support Column type in Multiple-Y Axis plot | In plotmyaxes dialog (menu: Plot>Multi-Panel/Axis: Multiple Y Axes) Plot Type “Column“ is supported |
ORG-25145 | Move data point improvement | Keep plot customizations when moving data points | In previous versions, choosing Data: Move Data Points, causes plot customizations to be lost. Plots changed to default black symbol. In 2023, press Tab to toggle between using default scatter symbol or customized symbol.
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ORG-22648 | Build Color improvements | We can interpolate according to selection, by group and merge color lists/ palettes. | Added Base Color radio option, with All and Selection as options. All means all color in build color dialog. Selection means current selection in the left panel of build color.
Support Interpolate by group option. Can now specify number of group members, and interpolate within group. When selecting more than 2 color lists/palettes in the left or right panel of the Color Manager, right-click will show a Merge Colors option. |
ORG-25527 | Replace 3D/Contour plot with another matrix | Support replacing 3D/Contour graph with another Matrix dataset in Plot Setup dialog | The ‘Replace’ button was disabled in the Plot Setup dialog which disabled replacing 3D/Contour plots data with another matrix dataset. The button is activated now in Origin 2023. |
ORG-25612 | Object manager Improvements | Rename layer names and etc. |
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ORG-24785 | LT access to Minor Tick Length and Thickness | New LabTalk property to access minor tick length and thickness | layer.x.ticklength //major tick length
layer.x.tickthickness //major tick thickness
layer.x.mticklength //minor tick length
layer.x.mtickthickness //minor tick thickness |
ORG-25621 | Go to Source Sheet button on plot mini toolbar | Click the Go to the newly added Go to Source Sheet mini toolbar button to activate the sheet of plot | There used to be Go to workbook context menu to go to source worksheet. In Origin 2023, a button is added on plot’s mini toolbar button to go to source worksheet. For grouped plots, click the single tab of mini toolbar button to see the button. Or click the plot in Object Manager, the single tab of mini toolbar will show by default.  |
ORG-23908 | Ability to change font/sizes on axis labels and axis titles simultaneously | Apply Formatting to: Font/Font in mini toolbar |
Same type means:
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ORG-24587 | Insert Map to Graph | Add system variable @MDF to Hide Map folder in Project Explorer after Insert Map Add system variable @MDL to hide Legend after Insert Map for Contour plot |
0 = Hide Map folder (by default) 1 = Show Map folder
0 = Hide Legend (by default) 1 = Show Legend |
ORG-19342 ORG-25747 | Support Higher Resolution bitmap toolbar | In Customize: Options tab, support Auto detect by screen size, for high DPI PC, now use 32*32 icon Support system varibale @TIZ to scale icon in range [50 200], 100 by default |  |
Text, Legend and Annotation
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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ORG-24917 | Layer Title Improvements | Center alignment, wrap text, etc. | Mini toolbar on layer level to add Layer title. A new text box similar to those in PowerPoint and Word will be added. It is center aligned horizontally and wrap text is enabled. The size of the box is defined instead of determined based on wrap text result. Changing the font size will keep title box width. It’s much easier to set title width and align it. 
Click on the layer title, and then the mini toolbar button to set box width 
LabTalk property to show/hide layer title: layer.title=1 (show) or 0 (hide)
Wrapped layer title or text box width:
This <textobject>.box property also applies to regular text object and legend box. By default, it’s 0 though. The box width mini toolbar also only shows if <textobject>.box value is bigger than 1. |
ORG-25630 | Page Title | Mini toolbar button on page level to add a center-aligned title on top of graph |
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ORG-24822 | Angle Annotation | Measure the angle between two lines and annotate it | Select Angle Annotation toolbar button.  Single-click 3 times to pick arm, vertex and the other arm. If an arm is close to a data point, it will snap to it. 
Click angle and drag anchors to adjust. Mini toolbar for angle and label for common edit. Double-click angle or right click and choose Properties to see all options. Double-click to modify the syntax, e.g. $(v, .3) to show 3 decimal places, $(v*pi/180, .2) to convert degree to radian and show 2 decimal places.
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ORG-25362 | Custom format to show plus sign for number | We can show positive or negative sign in custom format | In custom format. Add more options to show signs for numbers: .3 ----- 3 decimal places. old way |
ORG-25376 | Show Function Plot and Equation in Legend or Label Improvements | Function plots, used to shows F1 in the legend. Now it shows the Function Formula |  |
ORG-25289 | Restore Positon under Graph: Legend menu | Add a submenu under Graph: Legend: to restore legend position | Selecting it would not change user’s customization in legend but move it to default legend position in graph template. |
ORG-25354 | Hide Legend for Function Plots | Option to hide function plot entries in legend | In previous versions, function plot would always show in legend. In Origin 2023, a context menu is added to Hide Function Plots in legend. 
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ORG-25355 | Avoid using Function plot as Axis title unless it’s the only plot | Data Plot Index for Auto Axis Titles should exclude function plot unless it's the only one | When there are multiple plots (no matter data plot or function plot), Origin uses the 1st plot’s long name, unit as axis title. See the Data Plot Index for Auto Axis Titles dropdown list on Legends/Titles tab of graph node of Plot Details dialog. So if the function plot is the 1st plot in graph window, F1 will show as axis title. In Origin 2023, we will skip using function plot as axis title unless it’s the only plot in the graph. Use system variable @FPT=1 to roll back to the old behavior. |
ORG-24719 | Sort Point by Point legends | Options to sort point by point legend by X, Y, or alphabetical order | In previous versions, when displaying point by point legend, it would always show by row index order. Sort by options are added to sort by Alphabetical Order, X or Y. 
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ORG-16929 | Add Color block in Legend | Add User defined color block in legend | Can now add user-defined color block in legend
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ORG-25300 | Symbol Map Dialog Improvements | Gear icon on top-right corner of the dialog to manage symbols on each tab | 
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ORG-22079 | Support UTF32 for custom Unicode Symbol | In Symbol Map: Add Symbol dialog, enter UTF-32 unicide symbol to custom |  |
ORG-25285 | In-place edit for wrapped text object | For wrapped text, if not long, double click will enter in-place edit mode. For very long text, open Text Object dialog |
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ORG-23765 | More bracket shapes | Round and brace bracket shapes added |
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ORG-25512 | Improve Worksheet Cell Substitution Format | Keep cell display format in column labels and when using plot index when using W as last argument | When referring to a worksheet cell in a text label in a graph
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ORG-24940 | Separator button added in Text Object dialog | Add Separator button on Text tab of Text Object dialog to easily add an extra space between lines
| Added a separator option for all text labels in graph, including legend, axis title, etc. 
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Box Chart Legend with Box Style | Add New box chart legend style. And you can customize the box scale via control dialog. |
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Graph Customization
JIRA | SUMMARY | DESCRIPTION | DETAILS |
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Plot Data by Sorted X | LabTalk command to change line plots by worksheet order or sorted X | Perform automatic X value sorting of data in line or line-symbol plots without having to sort the worksheet columns. This is particularly useful when you have multiple columns in a worksheet and want to plot any two columns against each other, without having to reorder the worksheet rows. Apply x value sorting to a particular data plot with this LabTalk script command: Once sorted, the graph can be saved as a template for future use, if desired. 
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ORG-25298 | More skip data points options in plot | Smart skip point options based on data density and shape | For scatter plots and line+symbol plots, go to the Drop Lines tab. Two Smart Skip options are added:
System Variable @SMM determines the method used for Smart Skip: 0: Largest Triangle 1: Y-threshold 2: Data Distance Threshold 3: Douglas-Peucker-Hull 4: Largest Triangle for Segments(default) LT controlled can be used to specify starting skip points. In the example below, 10 means start to perform skip from the 10th row in the workbook data. layer.plot1.symbol.skipstart=10 |
ORG-25213 | Enable auto rescale on Mini Toolbar | Auto Rescale control for 2D and 3D layer level mini toolbar. | Once it’s enabled, when data are changed, graph axis will auto rescale to reflect it. Previously needed to go to Axis dialog to set the rescale mode to Auto. Or click the Rescale button (Ctrl+R) to manually rescale to show all. For 3D, it’s a dropdown list  For 2D, it’s a checkbox  |
ORG-25580 | Alternate Sides to Show Ticks and Labels | For multi-panel graphs arranged in 1 row or 1 column, added option to alternate sides to show ticks, tick labels and axis title | Use Alternate Side to Show Ticks and Labels Checkbox is added in:
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ORG-25214 | Smaller Z axis length Allowed | Extended minimum Z axis length to 10% | In previous versions, Z axis length could only be as small as 25% of full length. In Origin 2023, the minimum value can be as small as 10%. 
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ORG-25374 | Contour Plot Improvement | Insert multiple levels and customize single level’s label style |
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ORG-25610 | Set different spacing gap for different sets of linked layers | For each set of linked layers, different spacing can be set | E.g. In the following graph, the column/bar width and gap in top (layer 1) and bottom panels (layer 2, 3&4) can be set to set differently.
@GALL=1 by default, 0 is for old behavior Notice that we need to be enable Column/Bar/Box Gap Across Layers if want to share same spacing setting In older versions, the spacing tab is only enabled for 1st layer in whole graph and it will affect all layers. If setting the column/bar width on top panel to be narrower, the bottom 2 columns will be very thin.  |
ORG-25147 | Sunburst/Doughnut Improvements | Modify independent ring width in doughnut and sunburst plots | In doughnut or sunburst plots, set Group Edit Mode to be Independent and then select a single ring to set independent width. 
The following settings dependent or not in Independent mode is controlled by system variable @PGI 0 (default) - dependent/shared. 1 - independent (it's rare since usually they will share same gap, rotation, etc).
3D View group on the Pie Geometry tab of the Plot Details dialog are hidden in Origin 2023 since 3D doughnuts are not supported. |
ORG-25537 | Box chart Improvements | Set %c -hadj 0 to set no gap between half violin or split violin to center |  Note: If it’s multiple layer graphs, it needs to be set for each layer. |
ORG-25020 | Color Each Data Point in Grouped Box Chart Types with data points showing | When plotting Grouped box chart with data points showing, Data Points Color by option is added. | Under Plot: Categorical menu, there are multiple variations of grouped box chart, e.g. Grouped Column - Scatter, Grouped Mean Bar - Indexed, Grouped Half Violin - Indexed, Grouped Half Box - Indexed, they all open plot_gboxindexed dialog. User can also change it by change the variations by Graph Theme dropdown list in the dialog. As long as there is data points showing, Data Points Color by control will show for user to specify which column will be used to color the points. The following graph also set legend to show Categorical Values so coloring info. show in legend. 
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XY coordinates issues on special NetCDF | Support XY Coordinates Mapping on Matrix for heatmap plot |  | |
ORG-25567 | Add Line Connect style such as Spline to 3D line symbol plots | In Line tab of 3D scatter plot/trajectory/vector, we can add Connect option on top of Style. dropdown could be Straight/Spline/B-Spline. Default is Straight. Spline/B-Spline should be same as Cubic Spline/B-Spline in interpxyz XF. | If it is not available to do analysis, data points will be connected with straight line. It is not supported for 3D Ternary/Tetrahedral scatters plot. |
ORG-25085 | Gradient filled colormap bar | In Pattern tab, add More Colors option in Gradient Fill dropdown. | Select the More Colors option to show the Palette option. For column/bar/histogram/area/ribbon/wall/waterfall plot, add checkbox By Y Value after gradient fill, enable when gradient fill is not none. For 3D Bar, the label could be By Z Value. |
ORG-20843 | Improvement of color scale object size |
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ORG-25793 | want specify 3D plane position by cell value named range | We support to use project scope named range for Percent/Value edit box |
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