How to hide axes and gridlines

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I would like to be able to hide the axes and gridlines on a 3D matplotlib graph. I want to do this because when zooming in and out the image gets pretty nasty. I'm not sure what code to include here but this is what I use to create the graph.

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')
ax.view_init(30, -90)
ax.set_xlabel("X")
ax.set_ylabel("Y")
ax.set_zlabel("Z")
plt.xlim(0,pL)
plt.ylim(0,pW)
ax.set_aspect("equal")

plt.show()

This is an example of the plot that I am looking at:

score 160 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '17 at 16:15

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# Hide grid lines
ax.grid(False)

# Hide axes ticks
ax.set_xticks([])
ax.set_yticks([])
ax.set_zticks([])

Note, you need matplotlib>=1.2 for set_zticks() to work.

answered Jul 17 '17 at 16:15

azalea

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just leaving this note here because it tripped me up a bit: If you are using pandas, for example `df.hist(...)`, make sure you call `ax.grid(False)` AFTER `df_hist(...)` – wfgeo Nov 19 '20 at 12:53

score 118 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 13 '19 at 12:55

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Turn the axes off with:

plt.axis('off')

And gridlines with:

plt.grid(b=None)

edited Mar 13 '19 at 12:55

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answered Jul 17 '17 at 16:21

Johnnyh101

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Nice suggestion. – Ali Motameni Oct 23 '17 at 12:03
@johnnyh101 What if I had more than one ax, when using a subplot? How do I apply the above. Right now I have to either loop and set `ax[i].grid(False)` for each one of them. Is there a global command for subplots? – A Merii Mar 02 '20 at 09:54
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@AMerii `plt.rcParams['axes.grid'] = False` will turn it off for all plots – bbrodrigues Aug 18 '20 at 05:05

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