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

[jhthompson12]

Hello Plotly People,

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

[jonmmease]

Hi @jhthompson12, that for taking the time to write this up. Could you move this issue to the Plotly.js repository (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues)? And changes in this behavior would have to flow through Plotly.js and then would be automatically available in plotly.py. Thanks!

[jhthompson12]

Thanks for the guidance, @jonmmease. Just moved it over to plotly.js. I will close this issue in plotly.py out.

[jhthompson12]

This issue has been moved over to plotly.js as issue 3822