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Re: How to do 3D plot of vertical planes?



In article <6ibs1l$t6d@smc.vnet.net>, "Loren Gibson" <ljgibson@csi.com>
wrote:

>Can anyone suggest to me a method for plotting a surface which is a
>vertical plane, such as x=5, x+y=0, the xz plane, etc.? It appears to
>me that most of the typical methods of plotting 3-D surfaces don't lend
>themselves well to vertical planes. TIA.

Loren,
If you are using
Plot3D[expr,{x,xmin, xmax}, {ymin, ymax}] you might try
ParametricPlot3D[{x,y, expr},{x,xmin, xmax}, {ymin, ymax}]

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