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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"set_aspect for 3D plots","articleBody":"\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nset_aspect does not work for 3D surface plots\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\nIf a sphere is drawn with plot_surface then it should appear as a sphere and not an ellipse that depends on the window sizing. This was achieved in mpl 3.0.3 by calling \r\nset_aspect('equal'). \r\nIt is now broken in mpl 3.1.1-3.1.3 because the following was inserted in matplotlib/axes/_base.py (lines1279:1282) by the developers\r\n         if (not cbook._str_equal(aspect, 'auto')) and self.name == '3d':\r\n             raise NotImplementedError(\r\n                 'It is not currently possible to manually set the aspect '\r\n                 'on 3D axes')\r\n\r\nTo get set_aspect to work (correctly, I might add), I have to comment out these lines in my local version of matplotlib. A plotted sphere appears as a sphere independent of the window sizing.\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/vondreele","@type":"Person","name":"vondreele"},"datePublished":"2020-04-17T15:15:42.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":35},"url":"https://github.com/17172/matplotlib/issues/17172"}