Plotly Offline 3D Surface Plots: Customize the x & y tickvals/ticktext AND ensure readability of the axis labels

[jhthompson12]

Hello Plotly People, I am moving this from plotly.py in response to @jonmmease 's request.

Firstly, thank you very much for developing this incredible tool. You are all amazing. And apologies in advance if I did not submit this properly, this is my first time ever submitting a feature request.

This post is in response to a question I recently asked in detail on the Plotly forum found here.

In essence, when creating a surface plot, I would like to specify the values that are presented on the x and y axes AND set the maximum number of my custom axis tick mark values that will be displayed. At the moment, I can set the custom values with tickvals/ticktext, but the axis shows all of the ticktext that I provide. The nticks parameter almost provides the functionality that I'm looking for, but it doesn't seem to work with custom axis markers (nticks can only be used when tickmode = ‘auto’)

The following image shows how with a lot of tickvals/ticktext, the axis becomes unreadable.

Thank you for looking into this and please let me know if I need to provide any more information.

-Joe

[archmoj]

@jhthompson12 have you tried increasing layout.scene.yaxis.aspectratio?
It maybe helpful to improve the example you provided.
https://plot.ly/python/3d-axes/

[etpinard]

Thanks for writing in @jhthompson12

Your request is very similar to the one in #1812 most particularly from #1812 (comment), so I'll merge your ticket into #1812