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## Scatter plot wizard

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Plots are typically created in VisIt when you choose a variable from one of the Plot menus. Since the Scatter plot takes as input up to four input variables and typical plot creation only initializes one variable, you can imagine that if a Scatter plot was created the usual way, only one of its many input variables would be initialized. Furthermore, to initialize the plot, you would have to open the Scatter plot attributes window and select the other variables. Since that would not be a very straightforward way to create a Scatter plot, VisIt now has support for plot wizards. A plot wizard is a simple dialog window that pops up when you select a variable to plot. A plot wizard leads you through a series of questions that allow VisIt to more fully initialize a new plot. The Scatter plot is the first of VisIt's plots to support plot wizards. The Scatter plot wizard prompts you for the scalar variable to use for the Y-Axis, the variable to use for the Z-Axis (optional), and the variable to use for the plot's colors (optional).