Additional Commands for Setting Aspect Ratio :: Defining the View (3-D Visualization)

3-D Visualization

Additional Commands for Setting Aspect Ratio

You can control the aspect ratio of your graph in three ways:

Specifying the relative scales of the x-, y-, and z-axes (data aspect ratio)
Specifying the shape of the space defined by the axes (plot box aspect ratio)
Specifying the axis limits

The following commands enable you to set these values.

Command
Purpose

daspect
Set or query the data aspect ratio

pbaspect
Set or query the plot box aspect ratio

xlim
Set or query x-axis limits

ylim
Set or query y-axis limits

zlim
Set or query z-axis limits

Command	Purpose
`daspect`	Set or query the data aspect ratio
`pbaspect`	Set or query the plot box aspect ratio
`xlim`	Set or query x-axis limits
`ylim`	Set or query y-axis limits
`zlim`	Set or query z-axis limits

See Axes Aspect Ratio Properties for a list of the axes properties that control aspect ratio.

Example -- axis Command Options Axes Aspect Ratio Properties