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March 31st, 2000

[8:00 AM] Data Analysis Tool Gets New Beta Release
by Staff

QuantumSoft announced an update for pro Fit 5.5 beta 4. pro Fit is a data and function analysis solution, and the new version offers a slew of new features. According to QuantumSoft:

pro Fit is a Macintosh (Mac OS) application for data/function analysis, plotting, and curve fitting. It is used by scientists and engineers to analyze their measurements and the mathematical models they use to describe them.

This new version includes several bug-fixes and a beta of 3DPlotterGL 1.0, the new OpenGL based plug-in for 3DPlots of data and functions. pro Fit 5.5 is a major upgrade of QuantumSoft's data analysis and plotting software for the Mac OS.

What's new in pro Fit 5.5
This document is for experienced pro Fit 5.1 users, and provides a summary of the new features found in pro Fit 5.5, so that they can start to profit from the new version immediately.

  • New User Interface Experience and better integration with Mac OS 9.0
  • Date and Time data supported all over pro Fit
  • Redesigned Preview Window
  • Redesigned Parameter Window
  • New features with the Spline function
  • Automatic Column Calculations and date/time support in Data Windows, better sorting algorithm
  • New import/export formats for Drawing Windows, several enhancements, Using Drawing Windows as a dialog-box interface for user-defined programs.
  • Date plots and rotated labels
  • New Plot types: histograms & bar charts
  • Binning
  • New powerful debugger for user-defined functions and programs
  • More power for user-defined functions and programs
    • Date and time management
    • New Complex data types: Matrices and Vectors
    • Tags: Sending and getting data from a program.
    • Working with control shapes
    • Getting and Setting "Properties" of various pro Fit objects

Scientists or students can define any mathematical function and use it to model their data, finding by linear or nonlinear curve fitting the function parameters that best describe their observations. Moreover, they can use a number of tools for the mathematical and statistical analysis of functions and data sets, and they can produce esthetically pleasing graphical representations for their scientific reports.

pro Fit costs US95$ and you can find more information about it at QuantumSoft's site.

pro Fit 5.5 beta 4



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