Full window 3D plots got clipped

Hello,

I am plotting crystal structure in 3D without showing axes or labels. I want a figure where only the plotted 3D surfaces are visible and it can be manually rotated but during manual rotation the objects are not rescaled. If come up with this code:

figure();
rotate3d on;
set(gca,'Color','none');
set(gca,'Box','off');
daspect([1 1 1]);
pbaspect([1 1 1]);
axis off
axis vis3d
set(gca,'Clipping','off');
set(gca,'OuterPosition',[0 0 1 1]);

The only problem is that after rotation some part of the figure got clipped: http://picturepush.com/public/6576546 It is not only in the sides, also on the "back" side of the figure some things are disappearing. It looks like there is a box, outside which things don't get rendered.

Any idea how to solve it?

Thanks!

Sandor

Answer 1

[Jan]

Do not set the OuterPosition, but the Position:

set(gca,'Position', [0 0 1 1]);

Setting the OuterPosition considers space for the TickMarks, Labels and the Title.

Objects on the front dissappear, when they are moved behind the camera position. Then changing the CameraViewAngle instead of the CamaraPosition is helpful. In both cases the zooming effect is similar (not identical), but the view-angle does not change the distance between the view point and the oobjects.

Answer 2

[Sandor Toth]

Thanks for the quick answer! I tried:

set(gca,'Position', [0 0 1 1]);

but it does not help. I don't think parts of the plot is hidden because things are behind the camera. If you check the screenshot, you can see left and right side of the plot is cut, independently of the depth. I played around with the CameraPosition and CameraViewAngle with no succes either.

[Jan]

Please enable the visibility of the axes to see the difference between setting the Position and the OuterPosition. I cannot believe, that this does not change anything. The cutoff at the margins looks exactly like the objects are clipped at the axes limits.

Note that setting the Clipping property of the axes to 'off' has no effect. The Clipping of the drawn objects would be more important.

[Sandor Toth]

Great! The problem is solved, I had to set the Clipping properties of all objects to Off.