How can I add a title using slice plots?

Hey folks,

this is my first question in a forum ever XD (confetti)

I have a volume of measured data and found "slice" beeing perfect to plot those, but I dont know how to add a title and axes labels afterwards.

[Y,X,Z] = meshgrid(Ycm, Xcm, Zcm);

xslice = [Xcm(1),Xcm(2),Xcm(3),Xcm(4),Xcm(5),Xcm(6),Xcm(7)]; yslice = []; zslice = []; %no slices in y or z planes

sliceplot = slice(Y,X,Z, umat, yslice,xslice,zslice);

title='test'; -> gives me nothing

sliceplot.Title='test'; -> gives me "Expected one output from a curly brace or dot indexing expression, but there were 7 results."

sliceplot(1,1).Title='test'; -> gives me "Unrecognized property 'Title' for class 'matlab.graphics.primitive.Surface'."

(I know that I can add a title manually, but there is a lot of data to be plot, so an automatic command seems useful to me)

How can I access the plot features?

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found it, title('test'); works, but still, is there a way to access the plot afterwards?

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

If I undestand your question, are you looking for title, just keep title after slice plot

title('Title 1')

For axes

axis([%..label values..]);
xlabel('x axis label')
ylabel('y axis label ')
zlabel('z axis label')

For individual axis limit, use xlim, ylim check here

Or you are looking for title on individual slices?

[Adam]

The title is a property of the axes, not the slice graphics object so you wouldn't expect:

sliceplot.Title='test';

or

sliceplot(1,1).Title='test';

to work. And

title='test';

just assigns the chars 'test' to a variable named title.

Code has to follow rules, we can't just type things that look intuitive and assume it will magically work as code!

doc title

will give information on adding titles.

[Adam]

Properties of the slice graphics object itself are available on

slicePlot

If you want axes properties then you can get these from the axes handle, which is usually best to acquire right at the start of the process. I don't like using gca, but in the following case I find it acceptable if I am just writing a script:

figure; hAxes = gca;

Then I can use hAxes as my fixed graphics handle from there onwards.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Here's a functional demo of Adam's and Kalyan's suggestions. I added a different method of getting the axis handle.

% Create slice plot
[X,Y,Z] = meshgrid(-2:.2:2);
V = X.*exp(-X.^2-Y.^2-Z.^2);
xslice = [-1.2,0.8,2];   
yslice = [];
zslice = 0;
h = slice(X,Y,Z,V,xslice,yslice,zslice);  %grab output handle(s)

% Get axis handle
axh = h(1).Parent;    %alternative: axh = gca; 
title(axh, 'title') 
xlabel(axh, 'x')
ylabel(axh, 'y')
zlabel(axh, 'z')