Gridtype 'surface', Tickmode 'array' - Setting Tick Interval to a custom value

[StefanKoenigMUC]

Hi all,

I've got a brief question, I was not able to figure out so far.

that.layout = {
          title: 'Surface',
          autosize: true,
          scene: {
            xaxis: {
              tickmode: 'array',
              nticks: 10,
              title: "s",
              ticktext: result.map(s=> (s* 100)),
              tickvals: new Array(result.length).fill(1).map((_, i) => i + 1)
            },
            yaxis: {
              tickmode: 'array',
              nticks: 10,
              title: "m",
              ticktext: result2,
              tickvals: new Array(result2.length).fill(1).map((_, i) => i + 1)
            },
            zaxis: {
              title: "val"
            }
          }
        };
      },

Is there any way, to paint only every n-th tick to the Axis? As is still have to make use of the hover information, simply having empty "tick texts" is not a solution (as the hovers value are emptied as well).

I already tried nticks and tick density, but none of them had any effect to the plotted chart.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Stefan

[archmoj]

Here is a codepen.
@StefanKoenigMUC Could you please explain what is missing there?
Also for questions like this we highly suggest our users to post to https://community.plotly.com/c/api/plotly-js/6 so that others could help and we could keep the issues for bug reports, feature & pull requests.
Thanks.

[StefanKoenigMUC]

thanks a lot, will do this in the future!

in your example, I want to reduce the "density" of the x-axis ticks:

e.g. for the s-axis i want only to show "100, 300, 500", all other coordinates should be available within the hover field, but should not be labeled on the axis.

[archmoj]

@StefanKoenigMUC thanks for posting your question in the community website.
The title you choose there is also more clear.
BTW wondering why setting dtick does not work you?
Here is a codepen I tried it out and it seem to work.
Could you please elaborate what is missing there?

[StefanKoenigMUC]

i changed your codepen accordingly to my situation:

https://codepen.io/stefankoenigmuc/pen/WNxJLQN?editors=0010

I want the y-axis to just show every second ticket at the axis, but on the hover text every tick should be shown

[gvwilson]

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