xticks

Create a line plot. Display tick marks along the x-axis at the values 0, 5, and 10. Then specify a label for each tick mark.

x = linspace(0,10);
y = x.^2;
plot(x,y)
xticks([0 5 10])
xticklabels({'x = 0','x = 5','x = 10'})

Display tick marks along the x-axis at nonuniform values between -5 and 5. MATLAB® labels the tick marks with the numeric values.

x = linspace(-5,5);
y = x.^2;
plot(x,y)
xticks([-5 -2.5 -1 0 1 2.5 5])

Display tick marks along the x-axis at increments of 10, starting from 0 and ending at 50.

x = linspace(0,50);
y = sin(x/2);
plot(x,y)
xticks(0:10:50)

Create a line plot. Specify the x-axis limits as 0 to $$6\pi$$. Then, display tick marks along the x-axis at increments of $$\pi$$.

x = linspace(0,6*pi);
y = sin(x);
plot(x,y)
xlim([0 6*pi])
xticks(0:pi:6*pi)

MATLAB® labels the tick marks with the numeric values. Change the labels to show the $$\pi$$ symbol by specifying the text for each label.

xticklabels({'0','\pi','2\pi','3\pi','4\pi','5\pi','6\pi'})

Create a plot with duration values along the x-axis. Then, change the duration values where the tick marks are located.

t = minutes(0:.5:3);
y = rand(1,7);
plot(t,y)

ticks = minutes(0:.25:3);
xticks(ticks)

Create a stem chart and specify the x-axis tick values. Then, set the x-axis tick values back to the default values.

stem(1:10)
xticks([0 4 6 10])

xticks('auto')

Starting in R2019b, you can display a tiling of plots using the tiledlayout and nexttile functions. Call the tiledlayout function to create a 2-by-1 tiled chart layout. Call the nexttile function to create the axes objects ax1 and ax2. Plot random data into each axes. Then set the x-axis tick values for the lower plot by passing ax2 as the first input argument to the xticks function.

tiledlayout(2,1)
ax1 = nexttile;
plot(rand(3))
ax2 = nexttile;
plot(rand(3))
xticks(ax2,[1 2 3])

Remove the tick marks along the x-axis by specifying the tick values as an empty array.

x = linspace(0,10);
y = sin(x);
plot(x,y)
xticks([])