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How can I turn the label of the axes on a 3D plot from this:

(Labels "perpendicular" to the axes)

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To this: (Labels "parallel" to the axes)

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I simply use ax.set_xlabel('X axis'), and respective, for each of the three axis, but the labels result perpendicular, and occupy a substantial part of the plot.

I was reading this discussion, but it is actually not answered, and the get module I don't know where it comes from (I receive error if I try that solution).

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I am guessing that you imported axes3d module. Because it seems from looking at the matplotlib gallery examples, that the default behaviour of axes3d is to have labels "perpendicular", as on your first plot. But the module Axes3D have default labels to be "parallel" to the axes, as on your second plot.

As for discussion you linked, it applies to matplab and not to matplotlib.

Here is a code that should work for you:

import numpy as np from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d') points = np.random.rand(3, 40) ax.scatter(points[0], points[1], points[2]) ax.set_xlabel('X Label') ax.set_ylabel('Y Label') ax.set_zlabel('Z Label') plt.show()
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Sorry, I don't understand. You mean Axes3D is different from axes3d? Btw, I have imported Axes3D as well.
@Py-ser: I don't know about the inner workings, but as I saw from examples provided in their gallery, it seems that they behave differently. Have you tried the above code?
@Py-ser Sorry, but I can't help you there, since I don't see your code.
This works for me. @Py-ser maybe providing a minimal working example in your question would help?
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I have found the following as the best workaround:

ax.zaxis.set_rotate_label(False) # To disable automatic label rotation ax.set_ylabel('Y') ax.set_xlabel('X', rotation=-90) ax.set_zlabel('Z', rotation=90)

From here.

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