Getting Started

Getting started

1. Get data in

Drag files onto the Library, click ⊞ to browse, or ✚ for an instant demo dataset. Supported out of the box: Quantum Design VSM / PPMS / MPMS, Lake Shore VSM, PANalytical XRDML (1-D and 2-D RSM), Rigaku, NCNR reflectometry / PNR, refl1d, SIMS, CSV, Excel — plus OriginPro projects (see Origin Interop). Ambiguous extensions (.dat, .csv) are content-sniffed to the right parser.

The Import wizard (File menu) gives a guided preview with saved filters; Paste data ingests a clipboard table; right-click a dataset → Re-import from source refreshes it after a measurement re-run.

2. Explore

• The default tool is the pointer (➤): click/drag plot text and legends, resize annotations, right-click anything for its menu. Drag on empty canvas = box zoom; double-click = reset zoom.
• Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z — app-wide undo/redo of data edits.
• Ctrl-click several datasets in the Library → right-click → Panel: side by side / stacked / grid or Overlay in one plot. Panels open as windows with linked x-zoom; drag a panel's header to rearrange. Overlays assign a second unit family to the right axis automatically.
• The Worksheet tab is a full spreadsheet: sort, filter, mask rows, formula columns, drag column widths. Row exclusions propagate to every plot and analysis (linked row state).
• Ctrl+K / ⌘K opens the command palette — everything is in there.

3. Analyze

Everything lives in the Analyze menu: curve fitting (29+ models, custom equations, AICc model scan), the Peak Analyzer wizard, baselines (ALS, SNIP, Shirley, rolling ball, interactive anchor points…), reflectivity modeling, RSM strain, Williamson-Hall, FFT film thickness, hysteresis analysis, statistics, and more. Analyses read the same linked row state the plots use, and corrections are recorded as replayable pipeline steps with automatic recalculation.

4. Publish

Your plot is a figure document — Save it (window title button or Ctrl+K → "Save figure") and it reopens later exactly as you left it, under the Library's Editable figures. File ▸ Publication preview edits that same figure at output size: adjust fonts, ticks, margins, axis breaks, and annotations in a live preview (drag the legend, right-click any element), then Apply — one undoable change — and export vector PDF/SVG with journal presets (APS, Nature, thesis…) and rich-text labels (see Help ▸ Text formatting). Multi-panel export composes several plots into one Fig. 1(a)–(d) page. Data exports: Origin-ASCII + .ogs, native .opj, XRD CSV, HDF5, consolidated reflectometry CSV. Full tour: Figures & Publication.

Save everything — datasets, corrections, notes, windows — to a single .dwk workspace file (autosave keeps a safety copy; File ▸ Append workspace merges another one in).