2.6 Origin Limitations


System Configuration of the test PC: Windows 10-I7, Intel core(TM) i7-2600 3.40 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit OS.

Categories The Maximum Number Of Maximum value
Workbook Rows in a worksheet(Only One Column) 1,000,000,000
Workbook Columns in a worksheet(Only One Row) 65,504
Note:This limit is not affected by the number of row.
Workbook Rows in a worksheet with 2 columns DOM[2]
1,000,000,000 for 32GB RAM.
Workbook Rows in a worksheet with 5 columns DOM[2]
1,000,000,000 for 32GB RAM.
Workbook Rows in a worksheet with 32 columns DOM[2]
100,000,000 for 32GB RAM.
Workbook Number of User-Defined Parameter Rows in Worksheet 128
Workbook Characters in a Column Short Name 18
Workbook Characters in a Column Long Name 30,000
Workbook Characters in a Column Units/Parameters/User-Defined Parameter 30,000
Workbook Characters in a Column Comments 30,000
Workbook/Matrix Characters in the Sheet Short name 64
Workbook/Matrix Characters in the Sheet Label 30,000
Workbook/Matrix Characters in the Sheet Notes/Comment 30,000
Workbook/Matrix Characters in a Book Short Name 13
Workbook/Matrix Characters In a Book Long Name 30,000
Workbook/Matrix Sheets in a Book Window 4,096[3]
Workbook/Matrix Dataset size that can be copy/paste 100,445,884
Matrix Rows in a matrix(Only One Column) 1,000,000,000
Matrix Columns in a Matrix(Only One Row) 1,000,000,000
Matrix Cells(Data Points) in a Matrix 1,000,000,000
Matrix Objects in One Matrixsheet 65,504
Matrix Characters in an object Long Name/Unit/Comment 30,000
Matrix Characters in an object Long Name/Unit/Comment for X/Y/Z 30,000
Graph Characters in a window Short Name for Graph/Layout 24
Graph Characters in a window Long Name for Graph/Layout 30,000
Graph Layers in One Graph Page 1,024[3]
Graph Datasets plotted into one Layer No Limit
Graph Datasets in a Legend 129
Graph Major ticks on Axis for Numeric 20
Graph Major ticks on Axis for Text/Date Time 400
Graph Minor ticks on Axis for Numeric/Text/Date Time 4,845
Graph Graph Template in One Category 3,100
Graph Categories in template Library No Limit
Graph Characters in an Object's Name 23
Graph Characters in the tick labels No Limit
Project Folders in a project DOM[2]
Project/Window Workbook(Single Sheet, Visible) in a folder 669
Note: GDI objects limitation: 10000
(Check it in Windows task manager)
Project/Window Matrixbook(Single Sheet, Visible) in a folder 327
Note: GDI objects limitation: 10000
(Check it in Windows task manager)
Project/Window Graph Pages(Singe Layer, Visible) in a folder 1,834
Note: GDI objects limitation: 10000
(Check it in Windows task manager)
Import Columns in an ASCII Import into a worksheet/matrix 18,002
Import Rows (one column) in an ASCII Import into a worksheet/matrix 200,000,000
Miscellaneous Characters in GetN edit box 3,071
Miscellaneous Characters in Script edit box (with Color Code Brackets) No limit
Miscellaneous Characters in Script Window 2,097,152
Miscellaneous Path Length of Use Files Folder 170
Miscellaneous Characters of path length when export file (expGraph, expASC, expWav, etc) 259
Miscellaneous Number of origin instance in one PC 17
Miscellaneous Themes in Theme Organizer No limit
Miscellaneous Colors in the Color Palette >=9,230[4]
Miscellaneous Undo stack >=100
Miscellaneous Number of graph sended to PPT 437
Fitting Number of Category in Fitting Organizer 279
Fitting Parameter in one fitting function 277
Fitting Constants in one fitting function 635
Fitting Datasets that can be Simultaneously Fit using the NLFit dialog 100
Fitting Datasets that can be Simultaneously Fit using the NLFit functions 500
Fitting Functions in One Category 280
Analysis Data rows in Mask/Bad Data Table in report sheet 1,000
Workbook Number of unique items that can be displayed in the Text Filter lists 10,000
Workbook Characters in a Text format cell 799
Notes Characters in a Note text >=84,000,000
Notes Characters in Note window Long Name/Short Name/Comments 30,000
Programming Arguments for an Origin C or a LabTalk Function (function(int a1, int a2, ...)) 80
Programming Characters in a String variable 8,191
Programming Characters in a String Register(%A-%Y) 1,040
Programming Characters in a String Register%Z 8,191


Notes

[1] Tool bar has width of 63 standard buttons and 29 deep which is a total of 1827 ( Screen Resolution:1600*900 ).
[2] DOM: Depends on memory.
[3] Adding more than 255 layers or sheets requires saving project as OPJU (available in Origin 2018 SR0 and later).
[4] No fixed number of maximum colors in Color Palette.