autorange='reversed' in scatter3d

[lperozzi]

Hi,

it seems that the option autorange='reversed' is not working with scatter 3D. Is there another solution to invert the zaxis?

[cldougl]

Hi there,
Reversed axes are not supported for 3D (https://community.plot.ly/t/reverse-z-axis-values/1817/2) in our core plotly.js library.

[lperozzi]

Ok, got it. The solution (for now), to plot X,Y,Z geospatial data in scatter 3D, with the depth assigned to the zaxis and having a depth (Z) increasing from the top of the plot is to make your Z values negative (e.g, df['Depth'] = -df['Depth'])

[jonmmease]

Going to close this here since 'reversed' autorange support would need to be implemented in Plotly.js first (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js). Feel free to search the issues there and open a new one if this use case isn't covered yet. Thanks!

[VelizarVESSELINOV]

Your colleagues from plotly.js are now managing correctly reversed axis in 3D space plotly/plotly.js#1940. @jonmmease do you need to reopen the issue or we need to create a new issue or automatically plotly.py will benefit from this new functionality?

[jonmmease]

Hi @VelizarVESSELINOV, plotly.py will get it automatically (our code generation process automatically picks up new properties like this). Looks like this will make it into plotly.py 3.4.0.

[turqoisehat]

Any idea when this will start working in R?

[WenyinWei]

Hello guys, to be honest, I also met the problem that the "reversed" setup doesn't work. But my plotly.py is 4.5.2 and it still doesn't work. Would you mind having a check whether the functionality is added and really works?

[tpeet]

@WenyinWei , did you modify layout.zaxis.autorange or layout.scene.zaxis.autorange? Latter should be used for 3D plots. You could try this:

fig.update_scenes(zaxis_autorange="reversed")

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58532088/how-to-switch-direction-of-axis-in-3d-scatterplot-plotly/62672879#62672879