# 3D marker for scatter3d?

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/3d-marker-for-scatter3d/58301>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/3d-marker-for-scatter3d/58301 "2021-11-10T16:00:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikeb2021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mikeb2021](https://community.plotly.com/u/mikeb2021)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/3d-marker-for-scatter3d/58301/1 "2021-11-10T16:00:55Z")

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Is it possible to have/create a 3d marker e.g. a cube, for scatter3D? The use-case is to create a plot with a similar look and feel to a volume plot but without the over head of creating the entire volume (which seems to be very demanding of my computer resources).

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**Author:** ![dorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@dorn](https://community.plotly.com/u/dorn)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 8:29am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/3d-marker-for-scatter3d/58301/2 "2022-03-24T08:29:33Z")

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+1  
I am looking for the same feature with a lightly different purpose:  
I need cubes (with a fixed (absolute) length) that fill the space to have a cell grid.  
Creating lots of surface cubes (via parametrization) is inefficient.  
A marker3d option for scatter3d with relative or fixed marker size would be really awesome

marker3d types could be

- sphere (length)
- cube (length + orientation)
- some kind of pyramid (more lengths + orientation)

But maybe having these objects as scatter3d objects is the wrong approach.  
Maybe someone has some feedback how to realize the positioning of 1000 cubes with fixed length in a 3d plot