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Change x axis labeling independent of x values?

Imagine I am plotting e.g. this:

plot(1:1500,1:1500)

This will look like the image below, with the x axis starting at 0 and going up to 1500.

Now I don't want to have that labeling, but instead the x axis labeling shall start with e.g. 1 and then end at 151 (increase by 1/10 for every point on the x axis, additionally an offset of 1).

I just want to change the labeling of the x axis, I don't want to change the x input vector to the plot function nor do I want to plot other points. I just want the x labeling to start at a different offset and increase in another step size, independent of the x values passed to the plot function.

Is that possible? How? It would make some things easier for me. Thanks for any hint!

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Solution

  • You could customize the tick marks using the XTick and XTickLabel axis properties.

    Example:

    x = 1:7;
y = rand(size(x));
plot(x,y)
set(gca, 'XTickLabel',{'Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat','Sun'})

    screenshot