Rotate around one axis in 3d plot

Dear People,

I would like to know how to it is possible to freeze only one axis in a 3D plot, so to allow only "cylindrical rotations" with the mouse, i.e. rotations around only one axis. The function "rotate3d" seems to rotate around all axes, whereas "rotate" seems to apply to 2D plots. In particular, I would like it to work with "pcshow".

Any advice? Thanks in advance!

Adrian

[Rik]

From what I can find in the doc, rotate rotates the actual object, not the view, so that is different from rotate3d. I know it is possible to do this for zoom and pan, so it surprises me that I can't find how this would be possible with rotate3d.

[Adrian Szatmari]

Thanks for looking into it. Yeah, for 3d objects / clouds, as soon as you grab the plot with the mouse it starts to go all over the place... Very annoying.

[KSSV]

You can have a look on affine transformations. You can define your own rotation matrix and do what you want.