camera toolbar Reset button

Why is the Reset button of the cameratoolbar changing the proportions and aspect ration of my axes? It is converting it to a cube.

>> mesh(peaks(20))
>> cameratoolbar
>> pbaspect([2 .5 1])

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The Reset button of the camera toolbar resets the axes to the structure they had when the "cameratoolbar" function was originally called. To keep your aspect ratio, simply call the "cameratoolbar" after "pbaspect".

>> mesh(peaks(20))
>> pbaspect([2 .5 1])
>> cameratoolbar

Note: The Reset button looks at the axes structure at the time of the FIRST call of "cameratoolbar". Executing:

>> mesh(peaks(20))
>> cameratoolbar
>> pbaspect([2 .5 1])
>> cameratoolbar

will still result in the axes changing to a cube again because the first call comes before the aspect ratio was changed.