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Origin 2017 Features

Origin 2017 Features

May 07, 2018

Origin 2017 Highlights

 

The table below only lists some highlights of Origin 2017. To see more features in 2017, please use the navigation bar on the left panel of this page.

 

Please download 2017_Graphing.opj and 2017_Others.opj to try some new features.

Please download 2017 LaTeX to use it in Origin 2017.

Origin Interface

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ORG-14520

ORG-15307

Origin Central dialog

Origin Central dialog opens unpon launching Origin 2017 (F11)

  • Open section provides a lot of graph and analysis samples. Picking it will only open the corresponding folder with instruction. User can put their data into to see how graph and analysis updates.

  • Open section also provides ways to open new book or matrix.

  • Open Existing Files to open opj, ogw, otw, ogg files. 

  • Resources to see Apps. User can click the icon to go to file exchange page to download Apps. Learning Center will provide tutorials and videos, etc.

  • New Version button to check for available patch to update, new samples or new version Origin

Choose Help : Origin Central from the main menu or Press F11 to open the dialog. 

ORG-14889

Plot menu shows plot type with larger icons.
More built-in plot types. E.g. box plot has many variatiions with can be plotted with one click from Plot menu.

  • Plot menu is reorganized with large menu icons to better locate plot types.

  • More plot types and variations are added.

  • Mouse over each plot group to see more plot types.

Note: If you prefer the old menu, go to Origin exe folder. Rename PlotPopup folder. Restart Origin. The Plot menu will go back to the old way.

ORG-14265

Object Manager Improvements:

  • Bold active dataset 

  • Context menu to set as active

ORG-15060

Mouse hover data plot to show plot tooltip

In the Graph window, mousing over the data plots to see the data information of each plot

System Variable : @PT to enable plot tooltip,

0 – disable plot tooltip

1 – enable 2d plot tooltip only

2 – enable 3d plot tooltip only

3 – enable both 2d and 3d plot

ORG-14989

Help: Open Folders to easily navigate to the folder in Windows Explorer

  • Origin Folder – Origin central files, etc.

  • User Files folder

  • Autosave folder – if Origin is crashed, find the autosaved opj

  • Program folder — installation folder

ORG-15241

Distribute more Origin samples via Check for Updates

New Origin samples can be downloaded and auto installed via Help : Check for Updates as an opx file.

ORG-14657

Add tabs to Apps bar

Tabs are added on the top of Apps bar for easier navigating to apps. Users are able to create, remove or rename a tab.

 

Support Chinese GUI  (SR1)

Origin start to support Chinese GUI from 2017 SR1.