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Products : Origin : Importing Data
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Origin imports many popular data formats such as:
- ASCII (DAT, Comma Separated Values - CSV, TXT, etc.)
- Binary
- Clipboard (ASCII)
- Comma Separated Values (CSV)
- Microsoft® Excel® 97-2007 workbooks (xls, xlsx)
- Sound (WAV)
- National Instruments™ DIAdem™ DAT
- National Instruments TDM/TDMS
- pCLAMP® (Axon Binary
Files - *.ABF and Axon [Binary] Data Files - *.DAT)
Note: Origin 8.1 supports pCLAMP v5.2 to 10.
- HEKA
- JCAMP-DX (DX, DX1, JDM, JCM)
- Thermo® SPC and CGM
- Princeton Instruments (SPE)
- FAMOS (DAT, RAW)
- ETAS INCA MDF (DAT, MDF)
- EarthProbe (EPA)
- NetCDF (NC)
- nCode Somat SIE (version 0.92)
- SigmaPlot® (JNB)
- Kaleidagraph (QDA, but not QPC)
- WaveMetrics IGOR Pro
- MATLAB (MAT) (see left menu for additional support)
- Minitab® (MTW,
MPJ)
- Mathematica® Lists
- SQL Query tool to bring in data from a database
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Metadata, such as file name, creation date, path, and extracted variables, is stored with the imported data and can be accessed in the Workbook Organizer. You can even add your own metadata. |
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Some other features Origin supports when importing are:
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Origin's Import Wizard
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What Data Types does Origin support?
- Text
- Numeric
- Text & Numeric
- Date
- Month
- Day of Week
- Time (includes support
for the IRIG
Time Format - for example: DDD:hh:mm:ss.#####)
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