Can I change default settings of plot

I am new to MATLAB. When I use plot command, it displays the graph but by default grid is OFF. I have to use grid on command, each & every time I use the plot command. Is there a way that will turn grid on with the plot command?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Welcome to MATLAB!

Setting the some default parameters can be achieved by following these steps:

1. Look up the axes properties and locate the ones that are of interest to you.
2. use set to define the settings that you want, according to these instructions.

So, just to get you started, here is what I just tried after a fresh restart:

>> set(0,'DefaultAxesXGrid','on')
>> plot([0,1,2],[2,3,2])

which produced this:

Note that recent versions use groot (from 2014?), older versions simply used 0 to indicate the graphics root.

If you want these setting to be the default every time you start MATLAB< then you can put theses commands in a startup Mfile.

[Elia D'Orazio]

It works but after i close and then open again matlab the grid default property comes back to off. How to make it permanent?

[Christian Kampp Kruuse]

I don't remember exactly how but the there is a "run these files on startup thing" in matlab

Answer 2

[Arvind Srivastav]

Why does it show only verticle lines?

[Steven Lord]

Because Stephen only changed the default value for the axes object's XGrid property.

Setting DefaultAxesXGrid changes the

Default value of

(future) Axes objects'

XGrid property

There are corresponding YGrid and ZGrid properties.