Annotation Tool: Customize Display Label, including metadata support, etc.

Owned by Yiming Chen
Last updated: Nov 07, 2017 by Wall-E
1 min read

ORG-6449

Origin 2016: Customize Plot Attributes by Column Labels

Allow to customize the format of the annotation added to the plot. It is available for 2D XY plot and polar, and contour from both XYZ data and matrix.

How to...

  1. Select an annotation object, right click and select Customize Label to open the Annotation dialog.
  2. in the Label Form we can specify the quantities or dataset used to create the annotation.
  3. If Custom is selected, Format label is opened up and format string/Labtalk scripts can be entered, and multiple notations and arbitrary fixed strings can be combined as desired. The > button lists the frequently used notations.
  4. Apply to can apply the format to the annotations of the current object, the objects in the current layer or all the objects inside the graph window.