mfwdtran is outdated and will be removed in future releases. You can use projfwd instead.
mstruct=defaultm('lambert');
mstruct.origin=[45.684 -94.1505];
mstruct.mapparallels=[42.397 48.971];
mstruct=defaultm(mstruct);
[x y] = projfwd(mstruct, lat, long);
figure
plot(x,y)
axis equal
You can check the below link for more details on defaultm:-