Switch axes on .fig matlab

Question

While editing a .fig matlab file, I want to swap the x and y axes without redrawing the plot by code (without changing the order of vector data). Does a solution exist to my problem? Is there some option in the figure properties menu? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In addition to Luis 's answer you can set the current axes View property to [90 -90] directly from the property inspector.

Programmatically this is equivalent to this:

set(gca,'View',[90 -90])

Note:

Thanks to Luis for the correction. Using [-90 90] does swap the axis but then you need to reverse the direction of the y-axis. Therefore it's better to use [90 -90].

Simple example:

Before swap:

And then after changing the view:

Answer 2

You can directly access the 'XData' and 'YData' properties of each plot and swap them:

c = get(gca,'children'); %// get children of axes
for n = 1:numel(children); %// for each children
    set(c(n),'XData',get(c(n),'YData'),'YData',get(c(n),'XData')); %// swap XData, YData
end