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Jared Hughes edited this page Aug 31, 2021 · 4 revisions

Calculator Settings

Enable features including simulations, clickable objects, and more.

Modify settings built-in to Desmos.

Settings:

  • Clickable Objects: Enable simulations and clickable objects (buttons)
  • Advanced Styling: Enable label editing, text outline, and show-label-on-hover
  • Graphpaper: show the graph paper. Turn off if you just want to write equations
  • Create hidden folders: these folders are visible only if this option is enabled. Hidden folders are intended for teachers but can help with removing clutter
  • Show points of interest: intercepts, holes, intersections, etc.
  • Trace along curves: allow you to click on curves and trace coordinates on them
  • Lock viewport: prevents the graphpaper math bounds from changing
  • Show expressions
  • Show zoom buttons
  • Show expressions top bar: this is the bar on top with the "Add Item" button, undo/redo buttons, etc.
  • Border: enables a subtle (1 pixel) border around the calculator
  • Show keypad
  • QWERTY Keyboard: enable QWERTY mode for the keyboard instead of ABCDEF

Video Creator

Export videos and GIFs of your graphs based on simulations or sliders.

You can capture frames in the graph:

  • one at a time based on button press
  • based on a slider (be careful not to set the step too small. Thousands of frames can cause memory issues)
  • once for every simulation step (set the "while" content to something like a < 10, which captures frames while the variable a is less than 10)

Export the frames:

  • This can be slow, so be patient
  • See a comparison between the export types

Duplicate Expression Hotkey

Press Ctrl+Q to duplicate the currently-selected expression.

This only works for normal expressions, not items like notes, tables, folders, images, and simulations. (See #124)

Find and Replace

In the Ctrl+F Menu, this plugin adds a "replace all" button to let you easily refactor variable/function names, for example if you want to rename a to b throughout the graph's expressions.

Right Click Tray

A small quality of life patch that allows you to right click the settings bubble (style circle) in Desmos to open the settings tray (expression menu) instead of having to make a long-hold left click.

Wolfram to Desmos

Lets you paste ASCIIMath (such as the results of Wolfram Alpha queries) into Desmos. This automatically matches up parentheses and brackets so they look right, and changes infix notation like x mod 2 into Desmos's mod(x, 2).