Origin 2016 Known Issues

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Last updated: Nov 07, 2017 by Wall-E
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Graphing

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ORG-13958Bar plot disappears after adding axis break in horizontal axis

This is broken in Origin 2016 SR0 but fixed in SR1.

From customer.

http://www.originlab.com/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=21845

Plot a bar plot (horizontal bars)

Add an axis break in horizontal axis.

==> Plot is gone.

No such problem in column plot.

No such problem in 2015.

 ORG-13987XYZ Scatter draws on wrong Z coordinates when added on 3D waterfall graph

This is broken in Origin 2016 SR0 but fixed in SR1.

Details of the bug:

  • Plot a 3D Waterfall graph.
  • Then drag and drop XYZ data into waterfall graph.

==> The scatter points are drawn on wrong Z coordinates.

ORG-14077

When plotting multi-panel graph, not all plots show in legend

This is newly broken in Origin 2016 SR0 and is fixed in SR1.

To reproduce:

  1. Create a worksheet with 12 Y columns.
  2. Highlight all data and plot 4 panel graph. 
    --> Only legend in panel 4 shows all plots in its panel. 
    ==> The legends of panel 1, 2, 3 only shows 1st plot in the panel. 

ORG-14105Smith Chart failed draw correctly after set axis with divide by factor

This is newly broken in Origin 2016 SR0 and is fixed in SR1

To reproduce:

  1. Fill worksheet with row numbers.
  2. Highlight them to create a smith chart.
  3. Open Smith Chart dialog, change Normal Factor to something other than 1, click Normalize button.
    ==> Smith Chart skews badly.


ORG-14210Crash when create plot with large size (>50000) categorical data

This is newly broken in Origin 2016 SR0 and will be fixed after Origin 2016 SR1.

To reproduce:

  1. New a project, fill 3 cols with 100000 (as long as > 50000, whose default value for @MTTL) rows number.
  2. Set col(c) as Text format in Column Properties dialog.
  3. Highlight all cols to create a bubble plot.
    ==> Origin crashed.

    Set @MTTL=-1 to workaround the crash.


Import

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ORG-10358Multiple line in image can not be correctly digitized.

This is newly broken in Origin 2016 SR0 and is fixed in SR1.

All plots used the 1st X column in DigiData instead of the correct X column for each digitized line

ORG-14400

<sheet> theme is not used by default when drag and drop file

This is newly broken in Origin 2016 SR0 and is fixed in SR2.

Save theme to sheet, and drag and drop ASCII file onto the sheet to import.

==>The <sheet> theme is not used.

Programming

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ORG-14163

windown -da <winName>

Failed to duplicate active window specified name and keep the current window active

1. New a workbook
2. run the command

window -da mywinName

Newly Broken In Origin 2016 SR0. it keeps the duplicated window active. Also failed to rename it as mywinName

Fixed in SR1.