Persistent pan, zoom, position in matlab in combination with the dragzoom tool.

3d-plot-dragzoom-persistent-inverted.m

% This uses http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29276-dragzoom-drag-and-zoom-tool
% and makes the last zoom of an open figure window persistent for the next run.

% These axis settings could get pushed to an external file to make them always happen, too.


% Place the following at the top of your .m file

% Store the position of figure 1
myfig = 0;
prevCam.keys = {'CameraPosition', 'CameraTarget', 'CameraUpVector', 'CameraViewAngle', 'Position'};
prevCam.vals = 0;
h = findobj('type','figure');
if ishandle(h)
	% get the figure size and position
	myfig = get(h,'Position');
	prevCam.vals = get(gca, prevCam.keys);
end

clearvars -except myfig prevCam
close all
format compact

%% make a 2d or 3d plot here
% ...


%


% Place the following after you finish drawing and you are about to allow interaction from the user
% Restore the window positon of Figure 1
h = findobj('type','figure');
if(myfig ~= 0)
	set(h,'Position',myfig);
	% restore the camera zoom, pan, and position
	set(gca, prevCam.keys, prevCam.vals);
end

% whitebg(1,'k')  % Inverts all the colors on the figure if used after the fact
% Invert only the background and ensure the text and axis are white
if(true)
	set(gca,'color','black')
	set(gcf,'color',[0.32  0.32  0.32])

	a=findobj(gcf);
	set(gca,'XColor','white')
	set(gca,'YColor','white')
	set(gca,'ZColor','white')
	alltext=findall(a,'Type','text');%'axes' 'line'
	set(alltext,'color', 'white');
end

drawnow

% Enable nice click and drag and scroll to zoom mouse features on figure
dragzoom();
% axis vis3d
% set(gca,'cameraviewanglemode','manual');