Placing axis origin at origin for 3D plots
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- Subject: [mg80716] Placing axis origin at origin for 3D plots
- From: chuck009 <dmilioto at comcast.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:28:45 -0400 (EDT)
Hello guys,
I'd like to place the axis origin for some of my 3D plots at the origin but do not see a nice way how to do this. I can manually create some lines but then I won't have the tic marks and axis labels support that goes with the standard axes. The code below does what I feel is a poor job of making axes and again, I didn't go through the effort of manually creating tic marks and labels. Can anyone help?
axes = Graphics3D[{{Thickness[0.004],
Line[{{-4.5, 0, 0}, {4.5, 0, 0}}]},
{Thickness[0.004], Line[{{0, -4, 0}, {0, 4, 0}}]},
{Thickness[0.004], Line[{{0, 0, -5}, {0, 0, 2}}]},
Text[StyleForm["x", FontSize -> 18, FontWeight -> "Heavy"],
{4.5, 0, 0}], Text[StyleForm["-y", FontSize -> 18,
FontWeight -> "Heavy"], {0, -4.5, 0}],
Text[StyleForm["y", FontSize -> 18, FontWeight -> "Heavy"],
{0, 4.5, 0}], Text[StyleForm["-z", FontSize -> 18,
FontWeight -> "Heavy"], {0, 0, -4.5}],
Text[StyleForm["z", FontSize -> 18, FontWeight -> "Heavy"],
{0, 0, 2.5}], Text[StyleForm["-x", FontSize -> 18,
FontWeight -> "Heavy"], {-4.5, 0, 0}]}];
Show[{Plot3D[Sin[x], {x, -5, 5}, {y, -5, 5}, Axes -> False,
Boxed -> False], axes}, PlotRange -> All]