Property editor grid lines

Hello,

Can you make the grid line in a plot thicker in the property editor? I want to make mine more visible but cannot figure how.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Jan]

No, this does not work from the property editor.

But you can draw lines manually also:

% Create a test diagram:
AxesH = axes;
x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 100);  % Test data
plot(x, sin(x));

% The modifications start here:
GridStyle.Color     = [0.2, 0.4, 0.1];
GridStyle.LineStyle = '-';
GridStyle.LineWidth = 2.5;
GridStyle.HitTest   = 'off';

Child   = get(AxesH, 'Children');         
XTick   = get(AxesH, 'XTick');
YTick   = get(AxesH, 'YTick');
XLimit  = get(AxesH, 'XLim');
YLimit  = get(AxesH, 'YLim');
newGrid = cat(1, ...
          line([XTick; XTick], YLimit, 'Parent', AxesH, GridStyle), ...
          line(XLimit, [YTick; YTick], 'Parent', AxesH, GridStyle));

% New grid on top or bottom of other objects: 
set(AxesH, 'Child', [newGrid; Child(:)]);
% Or: set(AxesH, 'Child', [Child(:); newGrid]);

% Disable original dashed grid:
set(AxesH, ...
   'XGrid',      'off', ...
   'YGrid',      'off', ...
   'YTickMode',  'manual', ...
   'TickLength', zeros(1, 2));

[Pouya Jamali]

any reason Mathworks doesn't provide an option to do this easier?

[Tiago Dias]

hello, thanks for your reply, but the code doesn't work 100% for me, I have vertical lines in the grid, that aren't displayed.

Any idea why? my X is datatime, for Apr 2016 no vertical line, for Jul2016 a vertical line appears, for Oct 2016 no line, for jan 2017 i have a line and so on.

This only appears when i maximize the window of the .fig file