Creating a 3D WPF Column Chart to Visualize the Panama Canal Traffic by Shipment Category

This sample demonstrates how to creating a visually engaging 3D column chart using WPF. The chart aims to provide insights into the traffic flow through the Panama Canal, with data categorized based on shipment types.

Customizing the Chart Appearance

The appearence of the Column3D chart can be customized to improve the visual quality, we can customize the appearence using the PerspectiveAngle, Rotation, EnableRotation, Depth of the chart, Interior and SegmentSpacing of the column series.

Adding Data labels in Column chart

By using the ChartAdornmentsInfo3D of the ColumnSeries3D class, we can customized the data label of segments on Column chart using ShowLabel, LabelPosition, FontSize and Margin

By implementing these customizations, we can transform the 3D column chart into a visually striking representation of Panama Canal traffic, enriched with insightful details and clarity.

we’ll get an output mentioned below,

Troubleshooting

Path too long exception

If you are facing a path too long exception when building this example project, close Visual Studio and rename the repository to short and build the project.

For a step-by-step procedure, refer to the Panama Canal traffic blog post.