5.0

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