New in OriginPro 2021 and Origin 2021

OriginPro and Origin 2021 offer the following new features:

• New Color Manager
• New Formula Bar
• Greatly Improved Python Support
• More Mini Toolbars for Quick Editing
• New Graph Types
• New Apps
• Other Features

New Color Manager

Manage color lists and palettes with the new Color Manager tool. Key features supported by this tool include:

• Select desired color lists and palettes for access from Mini Toolbars and other places in the user-interface
• Create your own color lists or palettes, including by color-picking and interpolation of colors
• Import color lists or palettes from external files

New Formula Bar

A new Formula Bar has been added for worksheets. It provides the following key benefits:

• Enter cell formula when a cell is selected
• Enter column formula when a column or F(x) label row cell is selected
• Easily edit complex formulas, with the option to adjust formula bar font size for easier reading
• Interactively select and fill cell ranges while editing the formula, such as the input range for a function
• Search and insert functions

Greatly Improved Python Support

The Embedded Python environment in Origin has been greatly improved in this version:

• A new originpro package with easy, high-level access to Origin objects and data from Python
• Use Python functions in Set Column Values
• Define nonlinear fitting functions using Python
• Support for Python code in the Import Wizard
• Access to Python functions from LabTalk and Origin C
• Several sample projects and workbook templates using Python

Read More on the OriginLab blog

More Mini Toolbars for Quick Editing

Several new context-sensitive Mini Toolbars have been added in this new version, for:

• Tick Label Tables
• Tables in Graphs
• Date-Time Display in Worksheets
• Graph Legends
• Increment Control

Several existing toolbars have also been updated with more buttons for easy access to common tasks.

Mini Toolbar for Tick Label Tables. Set table style, fonts, colors, alternate colors for rows, insert rows with group statistics and more.

Mini Toolbar for tables in graphs. Select table style, quantities to display, fill color, border width and other table properties.

Use the Date button in the Mini Toolbar pop up to set display format for date-time columns.

Object properties that are adjusted "up" or "down" by clicking a Mini Toolbar button can now be adjusted to a user-specified increment, by setting a system variable.

Mini Toolbar for legend customization.

New Graph Types

The following new graph types have been added in this version:

• Chord Diagram
• Lollipop Plot
• Polar Vector
• Stacked Browser Plot
• Unicode Symbols

Chord diagram of export data for countries

Chord diagram of mobile phone data

Unicode can now be used to specify characters for symbols. In this graph, U+2640 and U+2642 are used as symbols for female and male data points.

Polar vector plot of electron transitions for hydrogen atom

Polar vector plot of wind speed

Lollipop plot of GDP growth data

Lollipop plot of flowering duration data

Stacked browser plot for exploring multi-channel data where group variable is used to assign data to multiple layers

New Apps

The following new Apps are available with this latest version.

• Neural Network Regression ^PRO
• Taylor Diagram
• Detrended Correspondence Analysis ^PRO
• Rank Models by Fit Reports ^PRO
• Optimization Solver ^PRO
• Apparent Integration ^PRO
• Import PDF Tables
• 3D Polar Strain Map ^PRO
• HTML Table Assistant
• Periodic Report ^PRO
• TDMS Connector
• Yokogawa WDF Connector

Other Features