In [1]: import numpy as np In [2]: from matplotlib import pyplot as plt In [3]: import pylab In [4]: centerNormal = pylab.load("centerNormal") In [5]: pointProject = pylab.load("pointProject") In [6]: myFigure = plt.figure(figsize=(30,30)) In [7]: myAxis = myFigure.add_subplot(1,1,1) In [8]: pointProject.shape Out[8]: (208, 4) In [9]: pointProject[:,0].shape Out[9]: (208,) In [10]: pointProject[:,2].shape Out[10]: (208,) In [11]: myAxis.plot(pointProject[:,0],pointProject[:,2],'ro') Out[11]: [] In [12]: myFigure.show() In [13]: myAxis.set_aspect('equal') In [14]: myFigure.show() --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/tomislav/OpenFOAM/tomislav-1.5-dev-debug/run/MASTER/circleCases/hexMesh/voFoamCircleHexa/ in () /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.pyc in (*args) 239 240 # attach a show method to the figure for pylab ease of use --> 241 self.canvas.figure.show = lambda *args: self.window.show() 242 243 def notify_axes_change( fig ): RuntimeError: underlying C/C++ object has been deleted In [16]: