General Features

Interface

• Full 32-bit performance
• Multitasking with 11 background thread surface-fit options
• Advanced online help system
• Drag and drop files for immediate fitting
• Fully customizable 3D surface graphs, including gradient and shaded plots
• Smooth bitmap rendering of graphs
• Caching of compressed 3D surface-fit graphs for instant rendering, including background thread
• Nonlinear sampler option for visualizing 3D surfaces of nonlinear models

Data Input

• Up to 16,384 points in data table
• 16.4 million points can be filtered into table using averaging digital import filter
• Weights optionally assigned
• File types: ASCII, Excel, Lotus, Quattro Pro, SigmaPlot, dBASE, DIF, SPSS

Data Management

• Graphical and numerical sectioning; graphically enable or disable data points
• Apply calculations to X, Y, Z and Weight values
• Spreadsheet-like data editing with optional graphing of data as they are being entered
• Intrinsic smoothing of NURBS for gridded data, an enhanced 3D Loess procedure for scattered data

Output and Export

• Publication-quality printed graphs
• Image formats include bitmaps, metafiles, enhanced metafiles and device-independent bitmaps vFile formats include ASCII, Excel, Lotus, Quattro Pro and SigmaPlot
• RTF (Rich Text Format) export available from all text windows
• Multiline headers and color printing support were added for text and equation list windows