On the toolbar you'll find two new buttons. The first makes it possible to return the view of the plot to its original state. The second makes it possible to manually rotate the plot. Both these function are also available from the Tools menu.
Tools Menu
On the Tools menu there are a number of functions that are specific to 3D plots. The following items can be found:
| • | Movies è Record H-Movie: Rotates the plot 360 degrees horizontally and saves the views into a MatLab MAT File. You can then review the rotation by running the "Show Movie" function from the toolbar or from the Tools menu. |
| • | Movies è Record V-Movie: Rotates the plot 360 degrees vertically and saves the views into a MatLab MAT File. |
| • | Return original View: Sets the view to the original view state for the plots. |
| • | Show/Hide Plane: If a plane surface is displayed in the plot you can select to hide it, and if hidden show it. |
| • | Hide/Show Colorbar: If a colorbar is present in the figure you can select to hide it when visible and show it when hidden. |
| • | Add/Delete Colorbar: Removes or creates colorbars. |
| • | Rotate 3D: Manually rotate a 3D plot by pressing down the left mouse button and dragging it into a new viewing angle. If you're dissatisfied when the new angle, the "Return Original View" will reset the view to its original state. |
Axes Context Menu
On the context menu for an axes object that includes a 3D plot you'll find a number of functions that allows you to control the plot better. Specifically:
| • | Projection: Choose between orthographic and perspective projections. |
| • | Motion: Make the 3D plot rotate 360 degrees horizontally and/or vertically. |
| • | Ambient Light Color: Determine the color of ambient light from a color picker dialog. |
| • | Light Color: Select the light color; see Light Context Menu. |
| • | Light Style: Determine which style of light you want: infinite or local. |
| • | Light Visibility: Shows or hides the light object. This has no effect on the actual light, but since the location of the light source may be difficult to determine when it's hidden, showing it makes things easier and especially if you want to manually move the light. |
| • | Light Position: Makes it possible to shift to position of the light object around in the axes object. There are 8 fixed values you can choose between. In addition, you can manually move the light with your mouse but that requires that the light object is visible in the sense discussed above. |