Align axes labels in 3D plot

Align the x, y and z labels of the current axes with the x, y and z axes for 3D plots.

Description

If the current axes have been rotated away from the X-Y view, this function will calculate the angles of the current x, y and z axes with respect to horizontal. These angles are used to rotate the current x, y and z axes labels to align them with their respective directions.

This only works for equal sized axes (axis equal) and orthographic projection.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.11 (2010b)

[Rob Campbell]

Useful. The only problem is that if you rotate and re-align a few times then it's possible for the labels to drift away from the centre of the axes. It would be nice if the label were re-centred as well as aligned.

[Matthew Arthington]

From the author: The labels should appear in the same place for the same view, but Matlab decides where that place is according to the current spacing.

I've looked into making this work without "axis equal" having been called (equal sized axes) and I'm stumped as to how to figure out the stretch of the plotted axes when they're not equal. Any help would be appreciated.

[Jveer]

does this work if you rotate using orbit camera from cameratoolbar?

[Matthew Arthington]

@Jveer

Yes, it does, and I've updated it so that it also works with Camera Roll too. Hope this helps.

[Mehdi Moghaddam]

that was perfect...just has a typing mistake.... instead of axis equal you have written axes equal....thnx

[alex harijanto]