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Cannot set the tick mark direction as default
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I recently switched to 2014b MATLAB, and I can no longer set the axes tick mark direction as default. That is, I used to be able to set the tick mark direction 'outward' by
set(0,'defaultAxesTickDir','out');
However, this command does not work any more. When I plot a new figure, the tick mark direction always becomes inward. I can still correct the direction by
set(gca,'TickDir','out');
each time I plot a figure, but this is very inconvenient. Does anybody knows how to work around this problem?
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Doug Hull
on 18 Nov 2014
From our development staff:
set(groot, 'defaultAxesTickDir', 'out');
set(groot, 'defaultAxesTickDirMode', 'manual');
plot(1:10)
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It is important that you set these two defaults in this order to be effective.
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Star Strider
on 19 Nov 2014
As I read the documentation, setting any property to something other than the default automatically sets the associated ‘Mode’ setting to 'manual'. When did that change? Can TMW change it back so it does?
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Shin
on 17 Nov 2014
Edited: Shin
on 17 Nov 2014
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Star Strider
on 17 Nov 2014
Agreed. You can set it but it doesn’t do anything. It’s not listed in the groot properties. Another reason to not uninstall R2014a.
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