Origin 2016 Features

Origin 2016 Features

Origin 2016 Highlights

 

The table below only lists some highlights of Origin 2016. To see more features in 2016, please use the navigation bar on the left panel of this page.

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ORG-13548

Enable/Disable Collapsible Menus from Tools:Options

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

ORG-10737

 

 

Dockable Object Manager to easily Show or Hide Plots on a Graph

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.

ORG-12904

GUI to Rename Plots with Loose Data (2D function plot & virtual matrix)

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.

ORG-12763

Support flip color increment list

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

Use tab style dialog for more analysis and statistics tools

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.)

ORG-11356

Better extra large icon images for folder, workbook, matrix, notes, excel book in Project Explorer  (SR1)

ORG-13960

Flyout buttons on Toolbars more obvious  (SR1)

Before SR1 – Tiny, not obvious

In SR1 – More standard, easier to click on to expand

ORG-13777

Change Color List on By Points tab of Chooser Chooser  (SR1)

Before SR1, user must change color list on Color List tab of Plot Details if the plot color is set to incrementing or using other column values.

In SR1, user can directly change Color List on By Points tab of Color Chooser.

ORG-13917

Ctrl+ click Color List or Increment List in Color Chooser to edit color orders. (SR1)

In SR1, user can click Ctrl+click Color List on By Points tab or Increment List on By Plots tab of Color Chooser to change the order of colors and save as future color increment list.

ORG-14036

Template Library Filter status better not kept between Origin sessions (SR1)

Before SR1, if user pressed Filter down to exclude cloneable templates that don't match the active workbook, when restarting Origin, the filter button is still pressed and no template may show in Template Library since default Origin workbook only has two columns A(X) and B(Y).

In SR1, a system variable @TLF is added in SR1 to allow this filter state to be
0. never remember, always reset to no filter
1. remember between open in same session (default)
2. remember between sessions

ORG-13757 S1

Add Allow System Theme to override checkbox in Template Modify dialog (SR1)

When plotting graph with a user-defined graph template,

system theme will be applied if this Allow System Theme to Override checkbox is checked when saving graph template

User can click edit button in Template Library to uncheck it now in SR1.

ORG-13614

Support Shapefile map in Object Manager (SR1)

After import Shapefile maps into Graph, the shapemap would be showed as a branch in Object Manager, each part could be a sub-object in this branch. So once the selection is turned on(right-click an object and select Selectable to turn on or turn off), users can select and modify the map, the selection of whole and partial could be similar to group and plot.

 

ORG-14269

Startup Tips Dialog Improvements (SR2)

We improved Startup Tips dialog.

  1. Four new buttons are created to help new users get started, which include Getting Started Tutorials for user to follow step by step, and 3 quick overview videos to watch..

  2. Help: Startup Tips menu is added so user can open the dialog any time.

  3. Open Sample OPJs buttons is removed since user can always open sample opjs from File: Open Sample Projects: menu.

ORG-14353

Color palette is more friendly to people with color-blindness (SR2)

Add two built-in color lists for color-blindness people: Q09 ColorBlindSafe8 and Q10 ColorBlindSafe15

 

Graphing

New Graph Types

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ORG-12500

Support 100% stacked column/bar plot with error bar

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

ORG-7860

Support Interval Plot

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