Origin 6.1 now available through Hearne

30 March, 2002

Leading Software for Scientists and Engineers Raises the Standards for Data Analysis and Technical Graphics in Windows

Origin 6.1 introduces enhanced capabilities for exchanging data, graphs, and user-created add-on tools. Origin version 6.1 is a leading Windows -based data analysis and technical graphics software package. Known for its unsurpassed speed, Origin's new interface and expanded interactive functionality will maximize productivity by enabling scientists and engineers to quickly produce results without answering a chain of questions. With new and improved interface features, Origin 6.1 makes complex graphing and analysis fast and easy.

Features include data point masking tools for controlled analysis, a new interface for customizing toolbars, a comprehensive Plot Details dialog box for easy customization of every graphical element, and a new Project Explorer for organizing your workspace. Origin 6.1 offers expanded graphic export filters including PSD, EPS, PDF, DXF, and AI, amongst many others. Origin 6.1 is a 32-bit product compatible with Windows 98 and Windows NT and is also an OLE2 server.

Origin 6.1 is easier to use than ever before; even the novice user will have no problem learning to enter, graph, analyze data, and present professional results. Yet it is sophisticated enough to let advanced users automate data analysis by creating scripts with the built-in programming language.

New Features

Origin 6.1 offers new capabilities to exchange data, graphs, and custom toolbars.

New features include:

  • ODBC Import

  • Import/Export Raster Images

  • Print Large Graphs to Multiple Pages

  • Improved Graphics Export, including new EPS routine

  • Drag-and-Drop Installation of Custom Tools and Add-On Modules

  • Color-Coded LabTalk Editor

OriginPro 6.1 turns Origin into a development platform for scientific graphing and analysis tools.

New features include:

  • Dialog Builder

  • MOCA Library

  • LabTalk Debugger

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Organize Work with the Project Explorer
Set up an Origin project to warehouse your experimental analysis. Now keep all successive work neatly contained in the same project, using folders to file data and graphs. Just click on a folder to see the Origin workspace dynamically show its contents.

Drag and Drop Plotting
Now adding data plots to existing Origin graphs has never been easier; simply select the data in the Origin worksheet or Excel workbook, then click and drag a selection into the graph.

Mask Selected Data Points to Focus Analysis
Use the new Mask toolbar to graphically mask out any points on the data plot. Use the tool to mask out outliers or bad data ranges that are reasonable to ignore. Once the points are masked out, any subsequent analysis done will disregard masked points. Other tools on the toolbar allow you to change the look of the data plot by temporarily removing masked points from view.

Access Graph Elements with a Single Dialog Box
The new Plot Details dialog box gives instant access to any feature of graphical data. Customization options are dynamically displayed, based on the graphic element selection within the dialog box. Customize any data plot attribute - data points, data plots, error bars, data labels, functions, layers, or the graph page - all in one interactive dialog box.

Expanded Symbol Gallery
The new Plot Details dialog box supplies a symbol gallery to pick from over 100 built-in geometric symbols. User-defined bitmapped symbols can be added to the gallery. Alternatively, you can choose from characters of any font installed on your computer, and have Origin increment the character for each data point.

New Color Palette Library and Color Mapping
Origin now supports the use of color mapping to represent another dimension in 2D, and 2D Contour graphs as well as 3D Surface and Contour graphs. Setup a custom color palette to range from once color to another, or specify colors for certain ranges. To provide a legend for the reader, an option of creating a color scale is provided to show value ranges corresponding to color.

Expanded Export Filters
Origin 6.1's new graphic export filters include:

Adobe Illustrator

*.AI

Encapsulated PostScript

*.EPS

Macintosh PICT

*.PCT

Adobe Acrobat

*.PDF

Adobe Photoshop

*.PSD

Computer Graphics Metafile

*.CGM

AutoCAD Drawing Interchange

*.DXF

Tag Image

*.TIF

PixMap

*.XPM

X-Windows Dump

*.XWD

Origin continues to support export of Windows Metafile (*.WMF), bitmap (*.BMP), JPEG (*.JPG), PCX (*.PCX), and Targa (*.TGA) files.

New and Improved Graphs

  • Vector graphs - Origin now supports two data formats for vector graphs: the X,Y, Angle, Magnitude format, and the new X,Y X,Y format where you can simply set the tail and head coordinates. The X,Y, Angle, Magnitude format can now also be easily scaled by simply specifying a scaling factor, so that the original values do not have to be transformed.

  • Pie charts - New Origin supports 3D pie charts, including exploded slices. You have complete control over their look - you can change the thickness of the pie slices, as well as their displacement, view angle, size, and rotation of the chart.

  • Box charts - New enhanced box charts. Now you can superimpose a column scatter graph of the data right on or next to the box chart. Further, you can place a distribution curve on the data, using any of seven standard distribution functions.

Create Custom Toolbars
Create custom toolbars to better organize the workspace. Add and remove buttons from any of Origin's existing toolbars, or create new toolbars containing a combination of buttons from Origin's existing toolbars.

Pricing Information

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