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Python_Learner
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Reputation: 1657

How to turn off gridlines from 3d axes?

How do I turn off the major x axis grid from this axes? matplotlib 3d plot with major x axis gridline showing

This code below works on 2d plots to hide the major x gridlines. On 3d plots it doesn't seem to do anything.

I prefer to use general axes methods like grid() or tick_params() that use keyword arguments since they are more flexible than calling out specific axis methods (i.e. xaxis, yaxis, etc.)

I've searched some answers and there's not much out there regarding 3d plots and this, the AI responses match what I already have and the human answer I found references [this] but it's not how I want to do it unless there are no other reasonable options.2

Update: The creativity of @Márton Horváth's answer inspired me to try the following things: test_ax.tick_params(axis='x', which='major', grid_alpha=0.0) and test_ax.tick_params(axis='x', which='major', grid_linewidth=0.0) but they did not work. I'm hesitant on the answer proposed that starts with the hidden methods that start with _ since this may turn into production code.

What should I try next?

from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import numpy as np      
test_fig = Figure()
test_ax = test_fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
# fake data
_x = np.arange(4)
_y = np.arange(5)
_xx, _yy = np.meshgrid(_x, _y)
x, y = _xx.ravel(), _yy.ravel()
top = x + y
bottom = np.zeros_like(top)
width = depth = 1
test_ax.bar3d(x, y, bottom, width, depth, top, shade=True)
not_vis_kwargs = {'which': 'major', 'axis': 'x', 'visible': False}
test_ax.grid(**not_vis_kwargs)
test_fig.savefig('test_figure.jpg')

Upvotes: 2

Views: 35

Answers (2)

zhan114514
zhan114514

Reputation: 1

only this

test_ax.axis("off")

Upvotes: 0

Márton Horváth
Márton Horváth

Reputation: 446

You can hide any of the respective gridlines using the following lines:

test_ax.xaxis._axinfo['grid'].update({'linewidth': 0}) 
test_ax.yaxis._axinfo['grid'].update({'linewidth': 0})
test_ax.zaxis._axinfo['grid'].update({'linewidth': 0})

Upvotes: 1

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