MATLAB®

Panning — Shifting Your View of the Graph

You can move your view of a graph up and down as well as left and right with the pan tool. Panning is useful when you have zoomed in on a graph and want to translate the plot to view different portions.

Click this icon on the figure toolbar to enable panning . In pan mode you can freely move up, down, left or right, or you can constrain movement to be vertical or horizontal only by right-clicking and selecting one of the Pan Options from the pan tool's context menu.

You can pan across both 2-D and 3-D views. 2-D panning has the effect of changing the axis limits that you are viewing, but it does not change the actual limits of the plot. For example, suppose you have a time-series waveform that you want to zoom in on to view detail, but you also want to be able to scan the entire plot.

3-D panning moves the axes with the object, because the 3-D view is not aligned to the x-, y-, or z-axis. The axes limits do not change as in 2-D panning.

Enlarging the View

Rotate 3D — Interactive Rotation of 3-D Views