User`s guide

Graphics and 3-D Visualization
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Graphics and 3-D Visualization
Plotting Tools Are Now Modular Desktop Components
The three MATLAB plotting tools (Figure Palette, Property Editor, and Plot Browser)
now function as desktop components like the Workspace Browser and the Array Editor.
They dock, however, not to the MATLAB desktop but to a Figures window. Figures
windows contain one or more figures, each of which is accessible by a tab. Turning on any
plotting tool changes your figure group into a mini-desktop. You can undock, rearrange,
tab, and resize the plot tools within the mini-desktop, and their state will persist across
MATLAB invocations. There are just one set of plot tools for all your figures, but they
only operate on figures contained in the group; undocked figures are free of the plotting
tools until you redock them.
For more information see Plotting Tools – Interactive Plotting in the MATLAB Graphics
documentation.
Version 6 Property Editor Has Been Removed
The MATLAB Version 6 Property Editor, one of the Plotting Tools, is no longer available.
this means that the 'v6' switch for the propedit function now produces an error
instead of starting the version 6 property editor. The error message is
??? Error using ==> propedit
The Version 6 property editor is no longer available. Sorry!
Compatibility Considerations
If you have code that calls the version 6 property editor, you will need to modify it to use
the modular plotting tools described above in “Plotting Tools Are Now Modular Desktop
Components” on page 21-29. The propedit function remain otherwise the same.
New Desktop Printing GUI
Printing MATLAB figures has become easier as a result of combining the Page Setup,
Print Setup, and Print Preview dialogs into one tabbed Print Preview dialog. You
can now specify paper size, plot size and layout, color and line weight, header text,