# how to increase thickness of axis and ticks in Paraview 5

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-thickness-of-axis-and-ticks-in-paraview-5/586
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-thickness-of-axis-and-ticks-in-paraview-5/586 "2018-09-17T10:13:10Z")
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### Author: ![swap\_9068](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@swap\_9068](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/swap_9068)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-thickness-of-axis-and-ticks-in-paraview-5/586/1 "2018-09-17T10:13:10Z")

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Hello,

I wanted to increase thickness of axis and ticks in Paraview 5. I searched various options in “axis grid” tool. But I could not find any option to increase thickness of axis and ticks. I searched on web but I could not find any thread about this query. Will you please inform me option for increasing thickness of axis and ticks in paraview 5.

Thank you in advance.

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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-increase-thickness-of-axis-and-ticks-in-paraview-5/586/2 "2018-09-17T12:03:28Z")

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This is not exposed in the UI, currently. I’ve reported an issue [here](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18459).