Label Rotation in MATLAB 2014

Has MATLAB 2014a introduced a built in way of rotating axis labels? see here.

plot(1:3);
set(gca, 'XTICK', 1:3);
set(gca, 'XTICKLABEL', {'aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc'});
set(gca, 'Rotation', 45);

However this gives:

Error using hg.axes/set
The name 'Rotation' is not an accessible property for an instance of class 'axes'.

Have I misunderstood?

[Carl Witthoft]

This works: set(get(gca,'YLabel'),'Rotation',-25);

[Javier]

Just works for labels, not for Ticks.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

In R2014a, you need to replace the tick labels with text which can be rotated. here are a few utilities to help:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=rotate+tick+label

[Matlab2010]

This is new functionality in 2014B that isn't present in 2014a? Correct?

[Sean de Wolski]

The above is R2014a.

R2014b has not shipped and the R2014b prerelease's features are confidential under NDA.

[Steven Lord]

Now that release R2014b has shipped, I can confirm that tick label rotation was added in that release. See the "Other enhancements and new customization options" paragraph in the "New Visual Look" section of this documentation page.

Answer 2

[Mina Kheirkhah]

Just use: xtickangle(45)