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UI & Usability Changes

MantidPlot

  • MantidPlot’s pyplot API has been removed.

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Improvements

  • Added functionality to sort based on Memory Size of the workspace

Bugfixes

  • A bug in the load dialog where bad filename input would cause the last file to be loaded has been fixed.

  • Fix crash when starting the Mantid VSI on MacOS.

SliceViewer

Improvements

  • A peaks workspace can now be overlaid on the slice viewer when the non-orthogonal view is displayed.

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DGS Planner

New

  • DGSPlanner has an option to load the UB matrix from the Nexus file metadata

Instrument View

Improvements

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The instrument view showing data from WISH.

The Instrument View visualization tool in Mantid has undergone some major changes under-the-hood which has resulted in a smoother, more responsive interface. Instruments generally load faster as well. Below are a few noteworthy improvements to load times (as tested on Windows 10):

Instrument

Speedup

WISH

5x

BASIS

5x

GEM

4x

SANS2D

3x

POLARIS

3x

CNCS

2x

Release 3.13.0