# Text at tick marks

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763 "2025-06-02T09:28:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nqw3412)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/1 "2025-06-02T09:28:51Z")

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Hello to all,

I would like to change the numerical tick marks on “AXES GRID” with text. Is this possible?

My geometry is in multiples of pi and I would to showcase this. So, instead of having 3.1415, 6.28318, … and so on I would have: pi, 2pi,…

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/2 "2025-06-02T09:32:42Z")

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Yes, of course, click on EditAxesGrid, then:

 ![a](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/e/8ea47c40dc02e7fcd0b5779e3082c5c96fd7b9fa.png)

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### Author: ![nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nqw3412)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/3 "2025-06-02T09:33:31Z")

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I am interested in adding text (symbol for pi)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/4 "2025-06-02T09:35:02Z")

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I’m afraid this is not supported yet. It should not be too hard to add though.

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### Author: ![nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@nqw3412](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nqw3412)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/5 "2025-06-02T09:36:30Z")

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I see.. Is there a way to add “Text filter” to a location in the AXES GRID?

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/text-at-tick-marks/16763/6 "2025-06-02T09:37:40Z")

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As I said, this is not possible yet, but adding this feature in ParaView is possible.