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## Setting tick mark properties

The tick marks are small lines that are drawn along the edges of the 2D viewport. Tick marks can be drawn on a variety of axes by selecting a new option from the Show tick marks menu. Tick marks can also be drawn on the inside, outside, or both sides of the plot viewport by selecting a new option from the Tick mark locations menu in the Annotation Window.

Tick mark spacing is usually changed to best suite the plots in the visualization window but you can explicitly set the tick mark spacing by first unchecking the Auto set ticks check box and then typing new tick spacing values into the Major tick minimum, Major tick maximum, Major tick spacing, and Minor tick spacing text fields. The text fields on the left correspond to the horizontal axis while the rightmost text fields set the tick spacing for the vertical axis.