# Creating Plots in 3-Matic

**URL:** <https://community.materialise.com/t/creating-plots-in-3-matic/477>\
**Category:** MIS - Scripting Forum\
**Tags:** general-tools, 3-matic\
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.materialise.com/t/creating-plots-in-3-matic/477 "2021-07-26T14:30:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![IAF2022](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/278dde/32.png) [@IAF2022](https://community.materialise.com/u/IAF2022)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.materialise.com/t/creating-plots-in-3-matic/477/1 "2021-07-26T14:30:29Z")

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I’m using an SSM to produce a large number of measurements and I’d like the script to output a chart of some kind to visually represent the measurement distribution. A histogram like the one in the 3-Matic SSM Properties interface would be great. Is this possible in 3-Matic? If so, how?

If it’s not possible to script a chart like the one described above, is there some way to export the data to Excel or Matlab?

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

-Ian

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**Author:** ![Marnic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Marnic](https://community.materialise.com/u/Marnic)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.materialise.com/t/creating-plots-in-3-matic/477/2 "2021-08-05T15:26:55Z")

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Hi Ian,

If it’s an official analysis object in 3-matic (like a wall thickness analysis), you can use the “export analysis” function. However, this probably won’t work in this example.

It is possible to export the data to Excel or Matlab. For Excel you can work with packages like “pandas” or “XLSwriter”  
An example: [https://pythoninoffice.com/save-data-to-excel-file-python/](https://pythoninoffice.com/save-data-to-excel-file-python/)

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,  
Marnic