The appropriate axis properties are 'XLimMode', 'YLimMode' and 'ZLimMode' which should all be set to 'manual'.
After you have done that, you can set the axis limits using the 'XLim', 'YLim' and 'ZLim' axis properties which are in the 2 element vector form [min, max]
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Dr Michael F Platten