diff --git a/examples/graph3d/example12_ticks.html b/examples/graph3d/example12_ticks.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98f6e9d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/graph3d/example12_ticks.html
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <title>Graph 3D Axis Ticks</title>
+
+  <style>
+    body {font: 10pt arial;}
+  </style>
+
+  <script type="text/javascript" src="../../dist/vis.js"></script>
+
+  <script type="text/javascript">
+    var data = null;
+    var graph = null;
+
+    function custom(x, y) {
+      return (-Math.sin(x/Math.PI) * Math.cos(y/Math.PI) * 10 + 10);
+    }
+
+    // Called when the Visualization API is loaded.
+    function drawVisualization() {
+      var style = document.getElementById('style').value;
+      var withValue = ['bar-color', 'bar-size', 'dot-size', 'dot-color'].indexOf(style) != -1;
+
+      // Create and populate a data table.
+      data = new vis.DataSet();
+
+      // create some nice looking data with sin/cos
+      var steps = 5;  // number of datapoints will be steps*steps
+      var axisMax = 10;
+      var axisStep = axisMax / steps;
+      for (var x = 0; x <= axisMax; x+=axisStep) {
+        for (var y = 0; y <= axisMax; y+=axisStep) {
+          var z = custom(x,y);
+          if (withValue) {
+            var value = (y - x);
+            data.add({x:x, y:y, z: z, style:value});
+          }
+          else {
+            data.add({x:x, y:y, z: z});
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      // specify options
+      var options = {
+        width:  '600px',
+        height: '600px',
+        style: style,
+        showPerspective: true,
+        showGrid: true,
+        showShadow: false,
+
+        // Option tooltip can be true, false, or a function returning a string with HTML contents
+        //tooltip: true,
+        tooltip: function (point) {
+          // parameter point contains properties x, y, z
+          return 'value: <b>' + point.z + '</b>';
+        },
+        
+        xValueLabel: function(value) {
+            return vis.moment().add(value, 'days').format('DD MMM');
+        },
+        
+        yValueLabel: function(value) {
+            return value * 10 + '%';
+        },
+
+        keepAspectRatio: true,
+        verticalRatio: 0.5
+      };
+
+      var camera = graph ? graph.getCameraPosition() : null;
+
+      // create our graph
+      var container = document.getElementById('mygraph');
+      graph = new vis.Graph3d(container, data, options);
+
+      if (camera) graph.setCameraPosition(camera); // restore camera position
+
+      document.getElementById('style').onchange = drawVisualization;
+    }
+  </script>
+</head>
+
+<body onload="drawVisualization()">
+
+<p>
+  <label for="style"> Style:
+    <select id="style">
+      <option value="bar">bar</option>
+      <option value="bar-color">bar-color</option>
+      <option value="bar-size">bar-size</option>
+
+      <option value="dot">dot</option>
+      <option value="dot-line">dot-line</option>
+      <option value="dot-color">dot-color</option>
+      <option value="dot-size">dot-size</option>
+
+      <option value="grid">grid</option>
+      <option value="line">line</option>
+      <option value="surface">surface</option>
+    </select>
+  </label>
+</p>
+
+<div id="mygraph"></div>
+
+<div id="info"></div>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/examples/graph3d/index.html b/examples/graph3d/index.html
index 3af5edbe..3e7a9b6f 100644
--- a/examples/graph3d/index.html
+++ b/examples/graph3d/index.html
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   <p><a href="example09_mobile.html">example09_mobile.html</a></p>
   <p><a href="example10_styles.html">example10_styles.html</a></p>
   <p><a href="example11_tooltips.html">example11_tooltips.html</a></p>
+  <p><a href="example12_ticks.html">example12_ticks.html</a></p>
 
   <h1>Playground</h1>
   <p><a href="playground">Open the playground</a></p>
diff --git a/lib/graph3d/Graph3d.js b/lib/graph3d/Graph3d.js
index bbc6bdcd..912a9c66 100644
--- a/lib/graph3d/Graph3d.js
+++ b/lib/graph3d/Graph3d.js
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ function Graph3d(container, data, options) {
   this.xLabel = 'x';
   this.yLabel = 'y';
   this.zLabel = 'z';
+
+  this.xValueLabel = function(v) { return v; };
+  this.yValueLabel = function(v) { return v; };
+  
   this.filterLabel = 'time';
   this.legendLabel = 'value';
 
@@ -829,6 +833,9 @@ Graph3d.prototype.setOptions = function (options) {
     if (options.yLabel !== undefined)     this.yLabel = options.yLabel;
     if (options.zLabel !== undefined)     this.zLabel = options.zLabel;
 
+    if (options.xValueLabel !== undefined)     this.xValueLabel = options.xValueLabel;
+    if (options.yValueLabel !== undefined)     this.yValueLabel = options.yValueLabel;
+
     if (options.style !== undefined) {
       var styleNumber = this._getStyleNumber(options.style);
       if (styleNumber !== -1) {
@@ -1179,7 +1186,7 @@ Graph3d.prototype._redrawAxis = function() {
       ctx.textBaseline = 'middle';
     }
     ctx.fillStyle = this.colorAxis;
-    ctx.fillText('  ' + step.getCurrent() + '  ', text.x, text.y);
+    ctx.fillText('  ' + this.xValueLabel(step.getCurrent()) + '  ', text.x, text.y);    
 
     step.next();
   }
@@ -1236,7 +1243,7 @@ Graph3d.prototype._redrawAxis = function() {
       ctx.textBaseline = 'middle';
     }
     ctx.fillStyle = this.colorAxis;
-    ctx.fillText('  ' + step.getCurrent() + '  ', text.x, text.y);
+    ctx.fillText('  ' + this.yValueLabel(step.getCurrent()) + '  ', text.x, text.y);    
 
     step.next();
   }
