# Writing Custom View for reuse of python plots

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/writing-custom-view-for-reuse-of-python-plots/14845
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/writing-custom-view-for-reuse-of-python-plots/14845 "2024-06-13T22:08:54Z")
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### Author: ![CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/csatizoltan/32/6997_2.png) [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2026, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/writing-custom-view-for-reuse-of-python-plots/14845/2 "2026-07-07T09:08:07Z")

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Hi @sherin.sugathan,

There is some recent activity on this, given that I want to achieve the same:

> [@Is threre a way to interact with PythonView?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-threre-a-way-to-interact-with-pythonview/7108/3):
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> It is possible to embed a Matplotlib figure into Qt using Qt for Python ([example 1](https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/examples/example_external_matplotlib_widget_gaussian.html), [example 2](https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/examples/example_external_matplotlib_widget3d.html)) thanks to the Qt [backend](https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/figure/backends.html) of Matplotlib. Does it require PySide though? Is there a way to embed it directly in C++ Qt? I would like to create a custom Qt widget that contains a Matplotlib figure, and this custom widget would be docked as a panel in ParaView.

Have you made any advance in this topic since then?

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