MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

Modify Figures in Live Scripts

You can modify figures interactively in the Live Editor. Use the provided tools to explore

data and add formatting, annotations, or additional axes to your figures. Then, update

your code to reflect changes using the generated code.

Explore Data

You can pan, zoom, and rotate a figure in your script using the tools that appear in the

upper-right corner of the figure axes when you hover over the figure.

• — Add data tips to display data values.


• — Rotate the plot (3-D plots only).


• — Pan the plot.


• , — Zoom in and out of the plot.


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  — Undo all pan, zoom, and rotate actions and restore the original view of the plot.

  
  

To undo or redo an action, click or at the upper right corner of the toolstrip.

Note

• When you open a saved live script, appears next to each output figure, indicating
  that the interactive tools are not available yet. To make these tools available, run the
  live script.


• The interactive tools are not available for invisible axes.

Suppose that you want to explore the health information for 100 different patients. Create

a live script called patients.mlx and add code that loads the data and adds a scatter

plot that shows the height versus weight of two groups of patients, female and male. Run

the code by going to the Live Editor tab and clicking Run.

load patients

figure

19 Live Scripts and Functions