SciDAVis

I haven't used it extensively, but I've found it to be quite intuitive and well featured. It's better than Sigmaplot, which my supervising professor uses, and so I have to, too. When I was left with only my Linux machine and a bunch of JNB (Sigmaplot) files completely inaccessible, I re-made the plots with SciDAVis. So having used both for the same (narrow) task, I'll make a brief comparison. SciDAVis felt more like a well thought out software, I especially liked the Data reader tool, and the fact that I didn't need to read through 10 pages of documentation to make an acceptable graph. Its dowsides are that it has just one style of dashed line and that setting up a plot for printing is quite a mess. Sigmaplot is more print-oriented, it makes a better use of the space in the page, and it always show the plot as it would appear on paper, kind of like a picture in a word processor. SciDAVis on the other hand keeps rescaling and adjusting graphs to the size of their windows and it's not clear what you'll get once printed. It behaves more like some sort of web applet which is not supposed to be printed. Sigmaplot (v12.5) is also pretty easy to use, although it misses some basic features like rearranging the order of legend items, and sometimes it gets overly complicated (like in running furmulas on data, for example). Also, you're forced to stick to Windows with Sigmaplot. In the end SciDAVis made me swear less than Sigmaplot (thinking that my university spent 400+$ on it makes me swear a lot), but it needs improvement on how it displays graphs, imo.