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How to hide axes and gridlines


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


Solution

  • # 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.