| iTool User's Guide: Working with Plots |

## Introduction

The IDL iPlot tool displays your data in plot form. The iPlot tool then allows you great flexibility in manipulating and visualizing plot data. iPlot can be used for any type of two- or three-dimensional plot, including scatter plots, line plots, polar plots, and histogram plots. To use iPlot, from the IDL Command Line, type `iPlot`. An empty iPlot tool appears. You can then import plot data using any of several data import methods. For more information importing plot data see Importing and Exporting Data.

Note For more information on accepted arguments, see IPLOT.

The iPlot tool can be launched in many different ways:

- At the IDL Command Line without arguments or keywords

- At the IDL Command Line with arguments or keywords

- Through the File New Visualization iPlot menu option in the IDL Development Environment

- Through the File New iPlot menu option in an iTool

IDL Online Help (March 01, 2006)