About WaveMetrics

About Igor Pro

Igor Pro is an interactive software environment for experimentation with scientific and engineering data and for the production of publication-quality graphs and page layouts. Igor has been used by tens of thousands of technical professionals.

This scientific data analysis software and programming language runs on Windows or Mac operating system. Popular functions include curve fitting and image processing. While Igor products were initially known for their graphics capabilities, today they are also well known for allowing users to extend built-in functions with external operations (XOP), allowing data acquisition, manipulation and analysis, and communicating with external devices.

Easy to Use for Beginners and Experts Alike

Igor Pro combines powerful data analysis capabilities with an easy to use programming environment for the sophisticated user as well as point and click options for newer users.

Novice users can import data, create publication quality graphs, perform curve fitting or other analysis tasks and export their results all without even knowing that a command line exists. Igor's dialogs allow manipulation of the tiniest detail and many properties in a graph can be adjusted by direct manipulation or a contextual click of the mouse.

Learn Programming While You Work!

Igor Pro users can quickly enhance their own programming skills because Igor's easy-to-use dialogs automatically create and then execute commands on Igor's command line. Beginners need not even be aware of the command line but, if desired, may begin to learn programming and command line techniques by observing the commands Igor itself generates. Even expert users can use dialogs as a graphical means of forming commands for inclusion in a program.

A Community at Your Fingertips

In addition to a full library of support tools and product documentation, WaveMetrics also offers Igor Pro users a convenient online forum, IgorExchange, where they can get help from other Igor Pro users and enthusiasts as well as share their own experiences and extensions, complete products or share code snippets.