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 PlotBuilder 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 PlotBuilder and Using the Interactive Plot Builder.

You can customize displayed plots using the Context Panel. Select the plot and the Context Panel shows items for customizing the plot.  These can also be accessed via the Plot menu.

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

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

If no range is specified, Maple tries to determine a reasonable domain to plot the expression. For trigonometric plots, Maple will often use the range $-2\mathrm{\pi }..2\mathrm{\pi }$.

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

For low degree polynomials, Maple ensures that the axis of symmetry of the graph is in the center of the plot.

$\mathrm{plot}\left(x^3+5x^2-10x\right)$

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

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

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

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

The PlotBuilder command lets you build and display plots interactively. To try it, run the following command in a worksheet and then click the area immediately below the command. Options for selecting the plot type and customizing the plot appear in the panel to the right of the Maple window.

$\mathrm{PlotBuilder}\left(\mathrm{abs}\left(\cosh \left(\frac{t}{5}\right)-2\right)+\frac{\sin \left(t^2\right)}{10}\right)$

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

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