diff --git a/src/plots/gl3d/scene.js b/src/plots/gl3d/scene.js
index eb108e89899..3db6528f939 100644
--- a/src/plots/gl3d/scene.js
+++ b/src/plots/gl3d/scene.js
@@ -472,9 +472,9 @@ proto.plot = function(sceneData, fullLayout, layout) {
                 sceneBounds[1][i] += d / 32.0;
             }
         } else {
-            var range = fullSceneLayout[axisProperties[i]].range;
-            sceneBounds[0][i] = range[0];
-            sceneBounds[1][i] = range[1];
+            var range = axis.range;
+            sceneBounds[0][i] = axis.r2l(range[0]);
+            sceneBounds[1][i] = axis.r2l(range[1]);
         }
         if(sceneBounds[0][i] === sceneBounds[1][i]) {
             sceneBounds[0][i] -= 1;
diff --git a/test/image/baselines/gl3d_set-ranges.png b/test/image/baselines/gl3d_set-ranges.png
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a90ad42129
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/image/baselines/gl3d_set-ranges.png differ
diff --git a/test/image/mocks/gl3d_set-ranges.json b/test/image/mocks/gl3d_set-ranges.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4082306937b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/image/mocks/gl3d_set-ranges.json
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "data": [{
+    "type": "scatter3d",
+    "x": ["2017-01-01", "2017-02-10", "2017-03-20"],
+    "y": ["A", "B", "C"],
+    "z": [1, 1e3, 1e5]
+  }],
+  "layout": {
+    "scene": {
+      "camera": {
+        "eye": {"x": 2.1, "y": 0.1, "z": 0.9}
+      },
+      "xaxis": {
+        "title": "",
+        "range": ["2016-01-01", "2017-06-01"],
+        "dtick": "M4"
+      },
+      "yaxis": {
+        "title": "",
+        "range": [-1, 3]
+      },
+      "zaxis": {
+        "type": "log",
+        "title": "",
+        "range": [0, 4]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}