# 3D volume plot is blank with Plots.jl + GR.jl

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/3d-volume-plot-is-blank-with-plots-jl-gr-jl/125444
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plots, gr
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/3d-volume-plot-is-blank-with-plots-jl-gr-jl/125444 "2025-02-01T03:52:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![photor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/photor/32/14343_2.png) [@photor](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/photor)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/3d-volume-plot-is-blank-with-plots-jl-gr-jl/125444/1 "2025-02-01T03:52:23Z")

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The backend is GR. Thanks.

```julia
julia> using Plots

julia> heatmap(rand(10,10,10))

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.8
Commit 4c16ff44be (2025-01-22 10:06 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 8 × Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4771 CPU @ 3.50GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, haswell)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 8 virtual cores)

(@v1.10) pkg> st
Status `C:\Users\ytian\.julia\environments\v1.10\Project.toml`
  [6e4b80f9] BenchmarkTools v1.6.0
  [824d6782] Bonito v4.0.1
  [7073ff75] IJulia v1.26.0
  [510215fc] Observables v0.5.5
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.40.9
  [276b4fcb] WGLMakie v0.11.1

(@v1.10) pkg>

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 ![Screenshot 2025-02-01 115004](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/e/ee8b20bbcb0367ae34974dfccb17a7e5ae498b7b.png)

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### Author: ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/3d-volume-plot-is-blank-with-plots-jl-gr-jl/125444/2 "2025-02-01T09:16:13Z")

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It seems to be broken - see issue [here](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/4689).  
As workaround:

```julia
using Plots
Plots.GR.volume(rand(10,10,10))

```

 ![Plots_GR_volume](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/5/15b1d604df0fd0edb40da82d6c5ae49fc59692e4.png)