Is it possible to plot surface plots together with a filled contour plot?

I am trying to plot surface objects along with filled contour plots in the same figure. The SURFC function allows me to create a surface plot with an unfilled contour plot at the base of the XY plane.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

There is no built-in functionality to plot a surface together with a filled contour plot. You can use the HOLD ON command to simultaneously plot a surface (using the SURF function) and a filled contour (using the CONTOURF function). Then you can get handles to the patch object comprising of the filled contour plot, and change their ‘ZData’ property to shift them to the bottom of the plot.

For example, see the attached file “surfcf.m”. To execute this function, refer to the following example:

    >> [X,Y,Z] = peaks(30);

    >> surfcf(X,Y,Z);

This will simultaneously plot the surface and filled contour on the same figure.