# Plotting in a different process
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-in-a-different-process/131300
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, distributed
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-in-a-different-process/131300 "2025-08-01T20:17:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-in-a-different-process/131300/1 "2025-08-01T20:17:17Z")
I want to start a second Julia process with
```julia-auto
using DistributedNext
addprocs(1)
```
and use a plotting library, like
```julia-auto
@everywhere using ControlPlots
```
(or Plots or whatever you prefer)
How can I now create a plot in the second Julia process?
```julia-auto
plot(rand(3))
```
would create a plot in the main process. How can I create the same plot in the second process?
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### Author:  [@abraemer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abraemer)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-in-a-different-process/131300/2 "2025-08-01T20:37:19Z")
Well basically you need to call the plotting function on the other process.
Have a look at [`Distributed.remotecall`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Distributed/#Distributed.remotecall-Tuple%7BAny,%20Integer,%20Vararg%7BAny%7D%7D) and [`Distributed.@spawnat`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Distributed/#Distributed.@spawnat)
So the general process should be:
1. Add the worker with `addprocs`
2. Setup the worker using e.g.
```julia-auto
@spawnat id begin
# setup code
using Plots
include("plotting_stuff.jl")
end
```
1. Later call plotting functions with the data via `remotecall(plottingfunc, id, args)` or use `@spawnat` again like
```julia-auto
@spawnat id begin
# plotting code
plottingfunc(data)
end
```
Alternatively you could setup a channel you just put data in. But that seems more complicated and more limited and I don’t really see the benefits.
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotting-in-a-different-process/131300/3 "2025-08-01T20:43:37Z")
Thank you!
This works:
```julia-auto
@spawnat 1 display(plot(rand(3)))
```