Get current rotation of a surf plot

Is there a method to get/save the current rotation of a surf plot. We want to rotate a plot (3D), by hand using "rotate3d on", to our desired viewpoint, and then save that rotation to be applied exactly the same to all future plots. I can't seem to find any ".getRotation" type functions or attributes.

[Dale Huffman]

Thank you all, (Star Strider, Jan Simon, and Jonh BG). All very good and relevant information. I accepted SS's answer because that is the answer that worked for us for now. I spent some time with the campos and RotateStyles, all good info. If I could "accept" all 3, I would. (Let me know if I can - newbie here to these forums) Thank you again.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The view (link) function will do that:

• [az,el] = view returns the current azimuth and elevation.

EDIT — They’re also displayed dynamically in the lower left corner of the figure GUI.

[Jan]

+1. Or explicitly:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(25);
figure
hAxes = axes;
surf(X,Y,Z, 'Parent', hAxes);
...
get(hAxes, 'View')

This is the way e.g. rotate3d updates the status text in the lower left corner.

Answer 2

[John BG]

campos returns the camera position

for instance, these axes

    campos
    =
       0.500000000000000   0.500000000000000   9.160254037844386

have the point of view on the z axis, at 9.1 above away from x y plane

Have you tried the MATLAB intro example for campos and rotate around a vibrating membrane

surf(peaks)
axis vis3d off
for x = -200:5:200
    campos([x,5,100])
    drawnow
end

to get right on target

campos([0 0 100])

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thanks in advance

John BG

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Answer 3

[Jan]

The answer is not trivial: rotate3d can rotate an object using the view angle or the camera orbit, see the parameter 'RotateStyle'. The DataAspectRatio of the axes object can be skewed, such that the replied angle does not match the visible impression on the screen.

In my experiments, Star Strider's suggestion worked.

[Star Strider]

Thank you, Jan!

[Jan]

@Star Stride: You are welcome.