Question re Scales when using Surface Command

[Erez Garnai]

Hi everyone,

So I'm using the surface command in order to create 3-D surface plots, and I cannot figure out how to reverse the scales so as to match them with each other.
My original plot is the following, where you can see how the x and y axes are not matching (i.e. the higher end of the x-axis runs into the lower end of the y-axis).

* command: surface wv_extrinsic_mean jq_extrinsic_mean wc_index, title ("Example 1") xlabel(-2(1)2) ylabel(-2(1)2)

Then I tried to use the reverse command (for both the x-axis [example below] and y-axis separately and together), but it still did not solve the problem:

* Command: surface wv_extrinsic_mean jq_extrinsic_mean wc_index, title ("Example 2") xlabel(-2(1)2) ylabel(-2(1)2) xscale(reverse)

I also tried reversing the z-axis but received the following error message

zaxis1.plotregion.zscale.reverse.set_true: class type not found
r(4018);

Any idea whether what I'm looking for here has a solution?
Thank you!

[Erez Garnai]

Anyone...pretty please?

[Nick Cox]

You might get more response by giving us

1. A full real name as requested.

2. A data example.

3. Explanation of the surface command -- where does it come from?

4. The syntax you used for trying to reverse the z axis.

I have never used surface that I can recall, so I bailed out at #3.

More generally, as the meta-question here is Why did no-one answer?: reading and following our FAQ Advice increases the probability of a good answer, although nothing guarantees a probability of 1.

[Erez Garnai]

Thanks for the clarification, Nick. I suppose it is too late to change my handle now...thanks anyway!

[Nick Cox]

No; it's not too late. See https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#realnames