SIMULINK Scope ylabel

Hi to all of you,

I am preparing a publication (in LaTeX) for which I need high quality .pdf/.eps figures of the simulink scope in just black and white with the help of 'export_fig' (thanks to Oliver Woodford)

I worked a little bit into figure handles (I am very new to that, normally my job is just SIMULINK) and wrote a little scipt which helps me threating the scope like a figure and makes it printible for puplication.

set(0,'ShowHiddenHandles','on')         %switches the handles of the scope on
                                        %now the scope can be treated like
                                        %a figure

set(gcf,'menubar','figure')             %switches the menubar on

h1=get(gcf);
h2=get(gca);

%properties of the figure
%set(gcf, 'Position', [500 500 500 500])%sets the position [left bottom width hight]
set(gcf,'Color',[1 1 1])                %sets the background to white

%line1=get(h2.Children(1))
%line1=get(lines.Children(1))
%set(line1,'LineStyle','--')
set(h2.Children(1),'Color',[0 0 0])
set(h2.Children(1),'LineWidth',3)
set(h2.Children(1),'LineStyle','--')

%properties of the axes
set(gca,'Color','none')                 %sets the axis bachground to white
set(gca,'XColor',[0 0 0])               %sets the x-axis and grid to black
set(gca,'YColor',[0 0 0])               %sets the y-axis and grid to black
set(gca,'Box','off')                    %removes the box around the axis

xlabel('time in seconds')
ylabel('Amplitude in meters')

%removes the text boxes
delete(h1.Children(9))                   %deletes the textbox 'offset'
delete(h1.Children(10))                  %deletes the textbox behind 'offset'
% 
%print figure
export_fig test.pdf

The problem is that the ylabel does not appear. When I change the color of the according text it is the background is visible but the text isn't. What can I do to set this ylabel?

Thanks for your Benjamin

Answer 1

[Guy Rouleau]

I recommend another approach.

Since you need that for a publication, you do not need the Simulink Scope to look like that during the simulation.

Instead of hacking into the Simulink scope, save the data and use SIMPLOT to create a MATLAB figure.

See this post for an example:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/2010/06/22/how-to-customize-the-simulink-scope/