# 3D charting in Flex (surface)

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 28, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-charting-in-flex-surface/307103 "2010-03-28T15:09:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kevin\_s](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kevin_s)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-charting-in-flex-surface/307103/1 "2010-03-28T15:09:19Z")

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Do you have any recommendation for a free 3D charting library in Flex. To be more precise, I only need to draw surface (for now). Basically, I just need a chart that displays three axes (one should be timeline, and two should be linear axises) and the surface.

From what I have seen so far, two most popular free Flesh 3D libraries are Papervision3D and Away3D. Also, I’ve found one IBM library - ILOG Elixir that looks really nice, but it’s proprietary (although, I haven’t seen any surface examples for Elixir neither).

From what I have seen, Papervision3D and Away3D should do much more then 3D charting, but I haven’t seen any examples on how to draw surfaces in any of them (except this line chart in 3D: [http://www.insideria.com/2008/06/3d-charts-using-papervision3d.html](http://www.insideria.com/2008/06/3d-charts-using-papervision3d.html)).

So, if anyone has a link to a documentation or some examples that would be great. Also, I’m interested to hear your opinion and recommendations on this topic.

Thanks.