Make vectors X and Y from abscissas and ordinates of a given plot

Hello, they sent me a plot .fig, I opened it in MATLAB and I wonder if there is a way to make the abscissas and ordinates appear as vectors in the workspace, importing them in some way from the figure... Thanks a lot! Elena.

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Click "edit plot", then click on the data inside the plot, then enter

    xdata = get(gco,'XData');
    ydata = get(gco,'YData');

Another way is to load the figure file as a MAT file in the workspace.

Let's assume your .fig file is called testfig.fig and is on the MATLAB path

 myFigStruct = load('testfig.fig','-MAT');
 xdata = myFigStruct.hgS_070000.children.children.properties.XData;
 ydata = myFigStruct.hgS_070000.children.children.properties.YData;

[Elena Cantoni]

Thanks so much!

[Sean de Wolski]

I did not know about method two - super cool!