Axes3D.text() Annotate 3D Scatter Plot

Question

Can't get the 3D text working to annotate the scatter plot points.

Tried Axes3D.text, plt.text but keep getting 'missing required positional argument 's'. How do you annotate in 3D in a loop?

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Ellipse
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.read_csv (r'J:\Temp\Michael\Python\9785.csv')

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')

#Scatter plot
for i in df.index:
    x = df.at[i,'x']
    y = df.at[i,'y']
    z = df.at[i,'h']
    ax.scatter(xs=x, ys=y, zs=z, s=20,color='red',marker='^')
    label = df.at[i,'to']
    Axes3D.text(x+0.8,y+0.8,z+0.8, label, zdir=x)

TypeError: text() missing 1 required positional argument: 's'

Answer 1

Changing: ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')

to: ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')

solved the problem. Used ax.text.

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Ellipse
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.read_csv (r'J:\Temp\Michael\Python\9785.csv')

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')

#Scatter plot
for i in df.index:
    df.set_index('to')
    x = df.at[i,'x']
    y = df.at[i,'y']
    z = df.at[i,'h']
    ax.scatter(xs=x, ys=y, zs=z, s=20,color='red',marker='^')
    ax.text(x+0.8,y+0.8,z+0.8, df.at[i,'to'], size=10, zorder=1)