I use Matplotlib 1.3.0
with Abaqus 6.11. Everything 64 bit. I believe with Abaqus 6.12 will work as well. The procedure is (using the same configuration as mine, but I believe newer versions of NumPy and Matplotlib will work as well):
Configure your environment variable PYTHONPATH
pointing to were matplotlib
is installed before importing it from Abaqus.
You may get a RuntimeWarning like:
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py:71:
RuntimeWarning: The _imaging extension was built for another version of Python; most PIL functions will be disabled
But you can use most of matplotlib
's features from Abaqus.