axes('XTick', 1:10:600, 'XTickLabelMode', 'manual', 'NextPlot', 'add');
plot(1:1000, rand(1, 1000));
I'm not sure if this works, because I cannot try it. Setting the 'TickLabels' manually as suggested by Birdman works also, because this sets the 'XTickLabelMode' to 'manual' also implicitly.
