Turn off z-axis only in 3-d plot

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I have some mpl_toolkits.mplot3d surface plots that I am viewing from different angles. When viewed from directly above (elev = 90, azim = 90) the text of the z-axis is all piled up on top of itself.

ax.set_axis_off() hides all of the axes, but I want to hide or turn off the z-axis but still see the x and y axes.

How can I do it?

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '14 at 13:06

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Most of the features are accessible via w_zaxis:

In this case you can use:

ax.w_zaxis.line.set_lw(0.)
ax.set_zticks([])

answered Mar 16 '14 at 13:06

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I was trying to do something to Z axis using `ax.get_zaxis()` and was getting an error that there is no such method. I substituted `get_zaxis()` with `w_zaxis` - it worked. But recently I'm using `zaxis` field that does the same job but is shorter. – mbdevpl Sep 10 '16 at 10:37

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 24 '18 at 15:13

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Though this question was posted a long time ago, I did not find a good solution for this. I tried it myself then found this code below might work:

ax.set_zticks([])

edited May 24 '18 at 15:13

Ivan

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answered Feb 08 '18 at 23:08

Icoding

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How is that any different than the other 4 year old answer? – user Feb 18 '19 at 09:40

Turn off z-axis only in 3-d plot

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