# Path plot
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 16, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636 "2021-12-16T09:56:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@FEngineer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/FEngineer)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636/1 "2021-12-16T09:56:46Z")
Hi,
i wonder if it’s possible to create path plots in ParaView. What I mean os basically extended version of Plot Over Line filter with a possibility to create XY plots using data along the path that doesn’t have to be a single straight line. For example, if I have a cylindrical geometry and want to plot the values from points or cells lying on the circumference of the cylinder vs the distance, would that be possible ?
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636/2 "2021-12-16T14:04:26Z")
Internally, ParaView can support plotting over any curve represented as a poly line. The `Plot Over Line` filter really only restricts you to a line because it is very difficult to place anything more complicated with widget controls.
If you have a poly line in 3D space whose data you want an x-y chart for, you can use the `Plot On Sorted Lines` filter.
There are some tricks you can do to extract interesting lines of data to plot on. In your example where you have a cylinder and want to plot along the circumference, you can first use the `Extract Surface` filter to get just the sides of the cylinder and then the `Slice` filter to get a curve around the circumference. From there you can use the `Plot On Sorted Lines` filter to get the XY plot.
In fact, ParaView comes with a compound filter that combines all of these operations. It is called `Plot On Intersection Curves`. It works reasonably well, but I often have problems with the scalings of the 3D widget of this filter for some reason.
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### Author:  [@timothee.chabat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/timothee.chabat)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636/3 "2021-12-16T14:34:02Z")
Also note that on ParaView master the new `Plot Over Line` algorithm now support polylines and multiblock composed of lines/polylines, using the filter `Plot Over Lines From Custom Source`. This can be usefull if you want to use the new feature `Sampling pattern`.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/path-plot/8636/4 "2024-01-15T07:42:49Z")
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