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I have a question on axis label alignment of ListPlot3D and Histogram3D. These labels are not aligned with the axis of the view, but only horizontally. I have tried very hard to align them manually, but the method sucks and still the output lacks precision and neatness. I wonder if M 9.0.0 has this facility? If no, then please suggest some clean way which aligns through exact calculations.

Thanks in advance.

ListPlot3D[Table[Sin[i + j^2], {i, 0, 3, 0.1}, {j, 0, 3, 0.1}], 
AxesLabel-> {Xaxis, Yaxis}, PlotLabel -> Sin[i + j^2], PlotStyle -> Purple]

Histogram3D[RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[0, 1], {500, 2}],
AxesLabel ->{Xaxis, Yaxis}]

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  • Welcome to Mathematica.SE, dude! I formatted your code. See this page to find out how to do that yourself. It might help to explain what you did to “align them manually”, and what kind of output/alignment you are trying to achieve. – Verbeia Feb 05 '13 at 10:47
  • Also, it is useful to upload an image of your desired result somewhere. Perhaps you still lack a few reputation points to upload it by using the site's features, but someone will take care of it. – Dr. belisarius Feb 05 '13 at 13:01

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This is the only approach that pops to my mind. We make use of texturized labels that are presented on the $x$-$y$ plane:

Show[
 ListPlot3D[Table[Sin[i + j^2], {i, 0, 3, 0.1}, {j, 0, 3, 0.1}], 
  PlotLabel -> Sin[i + j^2], PlotStyle -> Purple, 
  Lighting -> "Neutral"],
 Graphics3D[{Texture[
    Rasterize[Text[Xaxis], RasterSize -> 150, ImageSize -> 150]], 
   EdgeForm[White], 
   Polygon[{{2, 0, -1}, {12, 0, -1}, {12, 5, -1}, {2, 5, -1}}, 
    VertexTextureCoordinates -> {{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {1, 1}, {0, 1}}]}],
 Graphics3D[{Texture[
    Rasterize[Text[Yaxis], RasterSize -> 150, ImageSize -> 150]], 
   EdgeForm[White], 
   Polygon[{{32, 2, -1}, {32, 12, -1}, {27, 12, -1}, {27, 2, -1}}, 
    VertexTextureCoordinates -> {{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {1, 1}, {0, 1}}]}]
 ]

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