MATLAB Function Reference Volume 1: A - E - Bad Request

axes
Examples Zooming
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Zoom in using aspect ratio and limits:
sphere
set(gca,'DataAspectRatio',[1 1 1],...
'PlotBoxAspectRatio',[1 1 1],'ZLim',[−0.6 0.6])
Zoom in and out using the CameraViewAngle:
sphere
set(gca,'CameraViewAngle',get(gca,'CameraViewAngle')−5)
set(gca,'CameraViewAngle',get(gca,'CameraViewAngle')+5)
Note that both examples disable MATLAB’s stretch-to-fill behavior.
Positioning the Axes
The axes Position property enables you to define the location of the axes
within the figure window. For example,
h = axes('Position',position_rectangle)
creates an axes object at the specified position within the current figure and
returns a handle to it. Specify the location and size of the axes with a rectangle
defined by a four-element vector,
position_rectangle = [left, bottom, width, height];
The left and bottom elements of this vector define the distance from the
lower-left corner of the figure to the lower-left corner of the rectangle. The
width and height elements define the dimensions of the rectangle. You specify
these values in units determined by the Units property. By default, MATLAB
uses normalized units where (0,0) is the lower-left corner and (1.0,1.0) is the
upper-right corner of the figure window.
You can define multiple axes in a single figure window:
axes('position',[.1 .1 .8 .6])
mesh(peaks(20));
axes('position',[.1 .7 .8 .2])
pcolor([1:10;1:10]);