How to set axis of scatter3?

Hi, I have a for loop that basically continuously plots points using drawnow corresponding to particles in an explosion. So far, I've got the 3D scatter plot to continuously graph the explosion, its just that the axis continually readjusts every couple iterations, and the point motion is distorted because of it. Is there any way to set the axis of scatter3D? I've checked online everywhere and couldn't find an answer. Axis() doesn't seem to do anything. Thanks

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

Here is an example with unfixed axes, and fixed axes:

% Unfixed axes
figure
for N = 1:10
    pause(0.5)
    [X,Y,Z] = sphere(16);
    r = rand(1);
    X = 5*r*X;
    Y = 5*r*Y;
    Z = 5*r*Z;
    x = [0.5*X(:); 0.75*X(:); X(:)];
    y = [0.5*Y(:); 0.75*Y(:); Y(:)];
    z = [0.5*Z(:); 0.75*Z(:); Z(:)];
    scatter3(x,y,z)
end

% Fixed axes
figure
for N = 1:10
    pause(0.5)
    [X,Y,Z] = sphere(16);
    r = rand(1);
    X = 5*r*X;
    Y = 5*r*Y;
    Z = 5*r*Z;
    x = [0.5*X(:); 0.75*X(:); X(:)];
    y = [0.5*Y(:); 0.75*Y(:); Y(:)];
    z = [0.5*Z(:); 0.75*Z(:); Z(:)];
    scatter3(x,y,z)
    set(gca,'XLim',[-3 3],'YLim',[-3 3],'ZLim',[-3 3])
end

[Michael Feeley]

Actually this worked well! Thanks

Answer 2

[Thorsten]

 axis([your values])
 hold on

[Michael Feeley]

This seemed to work for the axis, but it slowed the plotting significantly. I'm trying to plot 1000 particles over thousands of timesteps. I also tried the below method but similar results