Origin 2017 Feature Highlights

The Origin Central dialog opens upon launching Origin 2017. It provides a lot of graph and analysis samples, together with Apps, plus a list of Videos and Tutorials to help the user to get started with Origin.

Mouse over the group icon to view all graph types of the group

New Plot Menu with Large Icons

Excel-like spreadsheet cell notation to be used in defining column formulas. Whenever this notation system is turned on for a workbook, a small A to Z icon will appear in the upper left hand corner of the workbook. With this notation, the column short names follow alphabetic orders and are not renamable. Column Formulas have now been significantly shortened and can be written in a similar fashion to Excel and Google sheets

The user can easily create multi-panel graphs from grouped data with the new Trellis plot.

The new multiple-tab annotation dialog which provides more controls, Text, Frame, Leader line, Position and Programming.

The user can hold the Alt key and drag the annotation object to another data point and the object will be automatically updated with the new coordinate information.

Worksheet column label row cells can display and store LaTeX strings. These strings can then be easily added to graph text objects, such as graph axis titles and legends.

In addition, an equation has been added using the free LaTeX App available from the OriginLab File Exchange. If you have MathType™ installed on your computer, you can use the Insert Equation button in the Tools toolbar to insert equations using MathType.

This graph displays a bar chart with data points overlapped. The bars represent the means of the datasets. Bars can be set to show other quantities (sum, median, max, etc.), using controls on the Box tab of the Plot Details dialog.

This is a box plot with mean points connected. The user can also connect median points, data points or other percentiles, using controls on the Connect Lines tab of the Plot Details dialog.

Line Series plot based on box chart with box turned off and connecting line added between points. The line color was indexed based on categorical value from another column in the raw data sheet.

The parallel plot (a.k.a. parallel coordinates plot) is a Line Series plot. It provides an effective graphical summary of a multivariate data set. This particular plot uses Fisher's Iris data to depict size variation in four flower parts among three species. The plot shows that Sepal Length and Width are less characteristic of a particular species whereas Petal Length and Width are fairly characteristic.

This graph displays the relative quantities of size fractions of unconsolidated sedimentary materials with depth below the ground surface. Hatch (Fill) pattern selection has been enhanced for Origin 2017, including the addition of entirely new "Geology" fill patterns.

Origin 2017 provides more fill patterns for column, area, contour and box plots, including a large set of standard Geology patterns. In addition, users can add their own patterns as .emf images and those will appear at the bottom of the fill pattern gallery.

This is a graph of financial data that may be familiar to some Origin users. While this graph could be created with earlier versions, such plots are now much easier to construct thanks to Origin 2017's Multiple Reference Lines and Recession Bars features. A new tab has been added to the Axis dialog. Here, you can add lines at any axis position and then opt to shade the area between them.

Two-way ANOVA support for Means Plot in Origin 2017. It helps user to visually compare the means.

The example displays a dialog box created with HTML. In this example, the user moves a vertical line on an inset graph. The dialog then interacts with Origin, calling JavaScript to read the X coordinate of the plot where it intersects the vertical line.