# Using plotly with ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-plotly-with-ignition/12078>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-plotly-with-ignition/12078 "2016-08-29T14:35:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jhahn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@Jhahn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jhahn)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-plotly-with-ignition/12078/1 "2016-08-29T14:35:39Z")

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is it possible to use plotly with ignition?

I want to be able to use the MES style charts with other data

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**Author:** ![anna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@anna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anna)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-plotly-with-ignition/12078/2 "2017-03-17T23:08:20Z")

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Jhahn, from everything I see - no, not unless you want to build a custom Ignition module to wrap it.

For one, looking at their docs, I see that the module uses numpy, which is a C-dependent Python library.  
Also, it is not clear how you would render their charts in Ignition (Ignition GUI is Java Swing based, I do not see how that library would integrate with Swing)