Change XTick in subplot not working

1
votes

I have plenty of subplots I have to load and put all together using Matlab. I want to add personalized Ticks but my approach does not seem to work. My mwe is the following:

x = 1:1:1000;
r = rand(1000,1);
my1 = subplot(2,3,1);
my1 = bar(x,sort(r));
title ('This works')
xlabel ('This works too')
xlim ([0 1000])
my = get(gca);
my.XTick = [1 200 499]

And this last point does not work. Why? How can I fix it?

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matlabplotmatlab-figuresubplot

1 Answers

2
votes

get(gca) returns a struct of all graphics properties of the current axes, not the axes handle itself. Any changes made to this struct of properties are not mirrored in your actual axes. You need to modify the properties of the axes directly using set

set(gca, 'XTick', [1 200 499])

Or if you're on 2014b

% Don't use get(gca) to get the handle
ax = gca;

% Set the XTick property
ax.XTick = [1 200 499];