Is SciDAVis Safe to Download and Install? Short answer: yes — as long as you download it from the right places. This page explains what “right places” means, why Windows flags the installer, and what you can and cannot verify. Nothing here asks you to take our word for anything you can check yourself. Does…
How to Cite SciDAVis in a Paper If SciDAVis helped you analyze data or prepare figures, citing it does two things: it gives credit to the volunteer developers who maintain it, and it makes your work reproducible — readers can see exactly which tool and version produced your results. Unlike some tools, SciDAVis has no…
Every Plot Type in SciDAVis, at a Glance SciDAVis can draw more than “a line through some points” — but the full list is scattered across the Plot menu, the 3D Plot submenu, and the scripting API. This page is the map: every plot type the official SciDAVis Handbook confirms, one sentence each, with links…
SciDAVis Keyboard Shortcuts Every shortcut below is taken from the official SciDAVis handbook’s toolbar reference. Memorize the dozen you use daily and you’ll rarely touch the menus. Shortcuts follow the active window: SciDAVis automatically enables the toolbar (and its keys) that matches the window you’re working in — a table, a graph, or a 3D…
SciDAVis on Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3): What Actually Works The short answer: there is no native Apple Silicon (ARM) build of SciDAVis. What you can do — and what real users have confirmed works — is run the Intel macOS build through Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer. A SciDAVis 2.8 user on an M1…
