For a pictorial listing of the available types of plots, as well as other resources for plotting, see the Plotting Guide.

Note: This guide is only available in the Standard interface.

Maple includes the Interactive Plot Builder, which provides a point-and-click interface to the plotting functionality including two and three-dimensional plots, animations, and interactive plots with sliders.

To launch the Plot Builder, run the plots[interactive] command. You can also launch the Plot Builder in the Standard Worksheet from the Tools menu. Select Assistants, and then Plot Builder. For more information, see Using the Interactive Plot Builder.

You can customize displayed plots using context menus. To display the context menu for a plot, right-click the plot (for Macintosh, Control-click).

$\mathrm{plot}\left(\sin \left(x\right)\,x\=0..4\mathrm{\π}\right)$

$\mathrm{plot}\left(1-x^2\,x\=-2..2\right)$

If no range is specified, Maple uses the default range ($-2\mathrm{\pi }..2\mathrm{\pi }$ for a trigonometric plot).

$\mathrm{plot}\left(\frac{\sin \left(t\right)}{1\+{\left({\ⅇ}^t\right)}^2}\,t\right)$

Otherwise, the default range is $-10..10$.

$\mathrm{plot}\left(x^3\+x\right)$

$\mathrm{plot}\left(\left[1\,x\,x^2\right]\,x\=-2..2\right)$

$\mathrm{plot}\left(\left[\ln \left(x\right)\,\sqrt{x}\,{\ⅇ}^x\right]\,x\=-2..2\,\mathrm{color}\=\left[''Red''\,''Green''\,''Blue''\right]\right)$

$\mathrm{plot}\left(\mathrm{Vector}\left(\left[1\,3\,4\,6\right]\right)\,\mathrm{Vector}\left(\left[8\,6\,2\,5\right]\right)\,\mathrm{style}\=\mathrm{point}\,\mathrm{symbol}\=\mathrm{asterisk}\,\mathrm{color}\=''Blue''\right)$

$\mathrm{plot}\left(⟨⟨1\,2\,3\,4\,5\,6⟩\|⟨6\,5\,4\,3\,2\,1⟩⟩\,\mathrm{style}\=\mathrm{point}\right)$

Launch the Interactive Plot Builder. Using the Plot Builder, you can easily customize plots before creating them.

$\mathrm{plots}\[\mathrm{interactive}\]\left(\left|\cosh \left(\frac{t}{5}\right)-2\right|\+\frac{\sin \left(t^2\right)}{10}\right)$

The command to create the plot from the Plotting Guide is:

$\mathrm{plot}\left({\cos \left(2x-\frac{\mathrm{\π}}{2}\right)}^3\+2\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\,x\=0..\mathrm{\π}\right)$