Origin 2015 Features

Origin 2015 Features

Origin 2015 Highlights

 

The table below only lists some highlights of Origin 2015. To see more features in 2015, please use the navigation bar on the left panel of this page.

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ORG-9847

Find Metadata in Project

Sample OPJ to try: Choose menu "File: Open Sample OPJs: Analysis"

Find in Projects Dialog

  • Find folder, graph, book, sheet, column, data cell, text in graph and notes window in Project

  • Double click to go to corresponding folder/window/sheet

  • Click Select... button to specify what metadata to include in search

 

Menu and Context menu open Find in Project (F3)

  • Edit: Find in Project... menu

  • Right click in PE

  • Right click blank workspace

 

Tooltip and Context menu for findings

  • Mouse over the finding to read more info.

  • Right click the finding to copy text, range or folder location

ORG-11432

ORG-11315 

Project Explorer Improvement: Graph Previews in Project Explorer

Graph Preview When Moussing Over

Extra Large Icons to Show Graph Previews

Note:

  • To disable this feature, set system variable @PESS to -1: @PESS=-1

  • To clean all the graph previews from an OPJ, run  doc -e p {win -ppc}  After doing this, when you mouse over graphs in PE, it will ask if you want to create preview for all graphs in opj.

ORG-10413

Project Explorer Improvement: Folder Comments

Project Explorer Folders now support comments just like books or graphs.

The ability to dump folder tree with descriptions has also been added to the pe_dir X-Function.

The following new variables were added to pd_dir:

1. "recursive" for searching subfolders.

2. "display", only useful when recursive=1. It has 3 options: tree, tree with description (for folder, it is Comments; for window, it is LongName), and flat (separate with CRLF)

3. "sensitive" for case sensitive.

ORG-11067 

Project Explorer Improvement: Comments tooltip when Moussing over Folder/Windows

Tooltips to Show Comments from Folders and Windows

Tooltips to Show Notes Window Contents

ORG-7727

Project Explorer Improvement: Show/Hide Column context menu

Details view in PE is now similar to Explorer and right-click will allow easy control of which column to display.

You can now also show Name column together with Long Name and Short Name.

ORG-11432

Project Explorer Improvement: In-Place Edit of Comments, Long Name, Short Name

Support in-place edit of Name, Long Name, Short Name and Comments columns in PE.

  • Single click to enter in-place edit mode

  • If single click not working, press Ctrl key and and single click

  • Shortcut key Ctrl+Enter will start new line for multi-line comments

Edit both short name and long name in in-place edit mode of Name column.

  • Mouse over the tiny button to see if you are editing long name or short name.

  • Click the tiny button to switch between short or long name editing

ORG-11150

ORG-10819

ORG-7727

Other Improvements in Project Explorer

Bold Active Window Line

Easy to tell which window is active.

Follow Windows Text Sorting Criteria

In the past, sorting only takes care of numbers at the end of name.

Now even names like Graph10a, Graph1a, Graph2a will sort properly.

Duplicate Window in PE 

ORG-9889, ORG-10413, ORG-9889

Window/Folder Properties dialog Improvement

Meta data support for PE folder (Comment, User Tree)

Right click folder and choose Properties to add comments and user tree

 

Window Properties dialog with more common options like user variables

  • Modeless dialog to easily add info. for multiple windows

  • Switch between Window Properties and Folder Properties mode.

ORG-10962

Sheet Comments

When right click sheet name, we used to have a Comments... context menu to edit comments. We have changed it to Name and Comments... context menu. It opens a new dialog to edit Short Name, Long Name and Comments.

When hover over sheet tab, Short name, long name and comments all show as tooltip. It also indicates what the display name is in bold in tooltip.

ORG-10198,ORG-9668, ORG-10524, ORG-11534, ORG-11132, ORG-104, ORG-10180, ORG-10277, ORG-10312

Axis dialog Improvements

Better Layout of the Axis Dialog

  • More friendly tab based dialog

  • Image Icons on left for easy recognition.

  • On Left panel, extra nodes e.g. bottom2, etc. only shows when Tick Labels tab is active

Second level Tabs on Tick Labels tab

  • Separate Display, Format, Table and Minor TIck Labels into tabs

  • Options in Miscellaneous branch are moved into Format tab

  • Enter Formula for Tick Labels (used to be in Layer Mangerment db only)

  • For Tick Label table, remove Independent checkboxes from 1st table row,  add Auto checkbox in other table rows.

 

Wrap Tick Labels

 

Customize Multiple Axes Together

E.g. highlight both Horizontal and Vertical icons on the left,

Set both Scale Type to Log10 together.

 

Control Line and Ticks Display separately

  • Show checkbox in Line tab to turn off line but keep major and minor ticks.

  • Customizing Color and Thickness for Major ticks and Minor ticks separately.

 

Customize individual special ticks

  • Table in Special Ticks tab to add special ticks easily

  • Click Details button for further customization of ticks and labels

 

Custom scale formula for 3D OpenGL axis