New Features in Grapher

Updated January 06, 2026 18:29

There are several new features in the latest release of Grapher! The top new features are listed below. A more complete list of the new features can be found on the Grapher Version History page. To see the features added to previous versions of Grapher, see the PDFs below.

If you're curious about how these new features can improve your workflow, download the Grapher Free Trial and test them out today!

-Top Features in Grapher's Latest Release-

Comments in documents

Leave yourself or your colleagues comments directly in the project to help you remember where you left off, take note of particular elements, or communicate updates. The comments stay saved with your document and don’t impact any exporting or printing outputs. They are easy to turn on and off as you need them with a click of a button.

Templates (new style)

Get started and finished in seconds - load a locally installed template, or open one from the Golden Gallery and instantly populate your data into a polished, presentation-ready layout. You can find these templates from the Welcome screen or from Grapher’s Home tab.

The Template Gallery offers many different kinds of graphs at your fingertips. Here you can search, browse categories by type, or simply scroll through to see the options.

Visiting the Golden Gallery, you’ll find an even greater multitude of templates available that are ever growing and expanded use cases: https://gallery.goldensoftware.com/

Each template comes with a full description of what it is, why to use it, which industries it’s common in, and how the data layout should look. No more headaches trying to figure out what you need to visualize your data in graphs like these, just plug and play!

Once you have your template open in Grapher, a special view opens giving you options to populate it with your own data and adjust any other settings.

You can also create templates from your existing projects to streamline inserting new data or train new team members to duplicate the same results. This can be a big help when revisiting projects from the past that you need to use again and may have forgotten about how to set them up. Save them to your own custom template to easily access and reuse directly from the program:

Automate loading multiple files for templates

Now it’s possible to automate loading a template and all its required data files in a single step.

Sub Main
    Dim Grapher As Object
    Set Grapher = CreateObject("Grapher.Application")
    Grapher.Visible = True

    ' Set up worksheet files to use for the template in the same order as specified (if you don't know, open the template in the UI and check the Populate Template dialog')
    ' Can also do the same for grid files
    Dim wksFiles(1) As String
    wksFiles(0) = Grapher.Path + "\Samples\3D Bar Chart.dat"
    wksFiles(1) = Grapher.Path + "\Samples\3D Bubble Plot.dat"
    
    ' Open the template and load it with all required worksheets
    Set template = Grapher.Documents.Open("c:\users\me\desktop\example_template_using_two_wks_files.grt")
    template.PopulateTemplate(wksFiles, "")
End Sub

Further streamline your workflow by running a script to automatically load all data into your existing template and output a complete project in a single click.

Improvements

New script: Change font for all objects

Run this script to easily change all the font and/or size used throughout the document at once. This makes a tedious task quick and easy and let’s you easily apply uniformity to your display.

New script: Create color scale for class legend

Run this script to create a color scale for any class type plot (Class Scatter, Ternary, Polar, etc.) to view a color scale for the legend instead of discrete values.

Intuitive group controls

Organizing projects just got a whole lot easier with grouping functionality that isn’t limited by other actions. There are clear indicators when you’re working with objects in a group and you can delete, add, or modify anything you need in a group without having to toggle a special tool mode.

Pan while moving labels

No interruption to your customizations while you need to adjust your labels. Get in close and pan around while you move labels on plots, axes, or titles.

Tools for drillhole data visualization

Grapher could always create important assets to help visualize aspects of your drillhole data, but now we have some tools that help streamline those customizations for you.

Check out these essential templates for depth logs, tadpole plots, and lithology logs:

Check out Creating Borehole & Cross-Section Logs also for a script to create well construction logs such as the following: