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How can I turn on antialiasing on 3D graphics from Plot3D[]? 2D graphics are antialiased for me but 3D graphics are very aliased and ugly looking, especially the coordinate axes.

I have seen people mentioning that your GPU must be powerful enough to enable antialiasing, but I have a very powerful GPU (Quadro M4000) and I can't even find the setting to enable it.

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    $\begingroup$ Can you check the Edit > Preferences menu item, and then look at the Appearance tab and the Graphics tab under it? You should see something like this. $\endgroup$
    – J. M.'s missing motivation ♦
    Commented Dec 14, 2016 at 4:29
  • $\begingroup$ @J.M. That worked, thanks! Now I feel real dumb for not being able to find that. If u add that in an answer I'll accept it. $\endgroup$
    – PGmath
    Commented Dec 14, 2016 at 4:36

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The Antialiasing option of Style only affects 2D graphics. For 3D plots the setting is global. To alter it, in the Mathematica Notebook menu choose Edit→Preferences, in dialog that appears go to Appearance tab, there to Graphics nested tab. Then move the slider to choose the amount of antialiasing.

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You can use the antialiasing function to smooth your renderings. See the examples below:

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    $\begingroup$ This only works for 2D graphics, and has no effect on 3D plots. $\endgroup$
    – Ruslan
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 13:58

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