title: MATLAB enlarge 3D plot without enlarging colorbar
body: <p>Is it possible to enlarge a 3D patch without altering the size of the colorbar? My original picture is like this one:</p>
  
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  <p>I just want to enlarge the block in the middle of the figure keeping the colorbar unchanged. I used zoom(1.9) before, it is good but since I need to use a for loop to read sequential files to plot different graphs and make video, the graph became larger and larger so it seems that I need another method to enlarge the plot.</p>
  
  <p>Update: my codes</p>
  
  <pre><code>set(gcf,'Renderer','zbuffer'); %eliminate unnecessary background and prevent stationary video - Important!
  vid = VideoWriter('afation.avi'); %Create a avi file 
  vid.Quality = 100;
  vid.FrameRate = 15;
  open(vid); %Open the avi file so that films can be put into it later on
  
  for ii=FirstFile:FileInterval:LastFile  
  
  fid = fopen(filename,'r');
  datacell = textscan(fid, '%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f'); %There are 8 columns to be read so there are 8 %f
  fclose(fid);
  
  all_data = cell2mat(datacell); %converted into a matrix containing all the dis. density info. for every simulation cell
  
  M=zeros(NumBoxX,NumBoxY,NumBoxZ); %create a matrix of 50x50x5,representing array of simulation cells
  % % the following loops assign the dislocation density from all_data to M
  for i=1:NumBoxX            
      for j=1:NumBoxY        
          for k=1:NumBoxZ     
              num=k+NumBoxZ*(j-1)+NumBoxZ*NumBoxY*(i-1);
              M(i,j,k)=all_data(num,ValCol); %the ValCol column of all_data is dislocation density 
          end
      end
  end
  
  indPatch=1:numel(M);
  [F,V,C]=ind2patch(indPatch,M,'v'); %Call the function ind2patch in order to plot 3D cube with color
  
  title('AA in different cells','fontsize',20);%set title \sigma_{xx}
  xlabel('y','fontsize',20);ylabel('x','fontsize',20); zlabel('z','fontsize',20); hold on;
  set(get(gca,'xlabel'),'Position',[5 -50 30]); %set position of axis label
  set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'Position',[5 50 -15]);
  set(get(gca,'zlabel'),'Position',[64 190 -60]);
  patch('Faces',F,'Vertices',V,'FaceColor','flat','CData',C,'EdgeColor','k','FaceAlpha',0.5);
  axis equal; view(3); axis tight; axis vis3d; grid off;
  colormap(cMap);
  caxis([MinDis MaxDis]); %set the range of the colorbar   %caxis([min(M(:)) max(M(:))]); %range of the colorbar according to one file only
  cb = colorbar;     % create the colorbar
  set(get(cb,'title'),'string','aaty(m^{-2})','fontsize',20); 
  
  lbpos = get(cb,'title'); % get the handle of the colorbar title
  set(lbpos,'units','normalized','position',[0,1.04]);
  MyAxes=gca;
  set(MyAxes,'Units','Normalized','position',[0.05,0.1,0.8,0.8]);
  
  zoom(1.9);
  writeVideo(vid, getframe(gcf)); %get the picture and put in the avi file with the handle "vid"
  
  end
  
  close(vid); %close the avi file after putting all the films into it
  % winopen('ggggon.avi'); %play the movie
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I put the zoom in the for loop because I need to enlarge the picture one by one and put them into my avi file to make movie.</p>