Lock axis for Rotate3D

Hey,

Is it possible to lock specific axes for rotate3D?

This would be very helpful as I want to rotate my plots around the z axis only.

Answer 1

[Alamanda Ponappa Poovaya]

It is not possible to lock specific axis for rotate3D. However there is a workaround using the rotate function, using which you can fix the axis. Refer to the code snippet below as an example.

Rotate is not interactive, however by using the for loop as seen below, you can visualize rotation around any axis

% Sample plot
s = surf(peaks(20));
xlabel('x-axis')
ylabel('y-axis')
zlabel('z-axis')
% along z axis
direction = [0 0 1];
%rotate by 25 degrees 
for i = 1:0.1:25
pause(0.2)
rotate(s,direction,i)
end

Documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/rotate.html

[Julius Schroers]

Thanks alot!

Got multiple plots inside one figure and struggled looping with rotate.

Tried looping view() and for now im happy with something like that:

for ii=1:720

view(ii,0)

pause(0.2)

end