Step 1: Install the ScottPlot NuGet package

Step 2: Plot some data and save the figure as an image file

double[] dataX = new double[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
double[] dataY = new double[] { 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 };
var plt = new ScottPlot.Plot(400, 300);
plt.AddScatter(dataX, dataY);
plt.SaveFig("quickstart.png");

Launch an Interactive Window

Plots created in console applications can be launched in a pop-up window allowing interactive pan and zoom:

• Install ScottPlot.WinForms (or one of the other ScottPlot control libraries)
• Create a Plot as described above
• Instantiate a PlotViewer with that Plot and Show() it

double[] dataX = new double[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
double[] dataY = new double[] { 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 };
var plt = new ScottPlot.Plot(400, 300);
plt.AddScatter(dataX, dataY);
new ScottPlot.FormsPlotViewer(plt).ShowDialog();

💡 Interactive plots using the WinForms and WPF controls require the console application to target Windows, but a strategy for launching interactive plots from console applications running on Linux using Avalonia is described in #1769

MacOS & Linux

ScottPlot relies on System.Drawing.Common which requires libgdiplus on non-Windows systems:

• MacOS: brew install mono-libgdiplus

• Linux: apt-get install -y libgdiplus

You may also need to specifically add the System.Drawing.Common package to your project:

dotnet add package System.Drawing.Common