formatting axes for a plot

Hello,

Why whenever I do this to format the x-axis to be between 0-6 and then type (x10^4) it does not show the x-ticks on the x-axis:

xVals = 0:.6:6;
set(gca,'xtick',xVals);
expVal = 4; %exponent you want
set(gca,'XTickLabel',sprintf('%2.1f|',xVals));%10^expVal));
pos = get(gca,'Position');
offset = 0.00; %how far to the right you want the exponent
annotation('textbox',[pos(1)+ pos(3)+offset, pos(2), 0.2, 0.2],...
  'String',['$\times 10^' num2str(expVal) '$'],...
  'Interpreter','latex',...
  'VerticalAlignment','bottom',...
  'EdgeColor','none')

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

If all you want to do is to add the annotation in your plot, you don't need to add the 'XTicks'.

You could just add this section to your original code:

 pos = get(gca,'Position');
 offset = 0.00; %how far to the right you want the exponent
 annotation('textbox',[pos(1)+ pos(3)+offset, pos(2), 0.2, 0.2],...
  'String',['$\times 10^' num2str(expVal) '$'],...
  'Interpreter','latex',...
  'VerticalAlignment','bottom',...
  'EdgeColor','none')

[Sam Alex]

The annotation and x-labels where it is custom: for example my data does from 0-60000 and I want the step to be 6000...I am doing it in the code above as you see but it is not working and I am wondering why!

[José-Luis]

I don't understand. How do you want the labels to appear?

[Sam Alex]

I want to force the plot have numbers on the x-axis like this: 0, 0.6, 1.2, 1.8, 2.4, 3.0, 3.6, 4.2, 4.8, 5.4

[José-Luis]

 x = 0:6000:60000; 
 y = randn(numel(x),1); 
 plot(x,y,'b-o')
 xVals = x;
 set(gca,'xtick',xVals);
 expVal = 4; %exponent you want
 set(gca,'XTickLabel',sprintf('%2.1f|',xVals./(10^expVal)));
 pos = get(gca,'Position');
 offset = 0.00; %how far to the right you want the exponent
 annotation('textbox',[pos(1)+ pos(3)+offset, pos(2), 0.2, 0.2],...
    'String',['$\times 10^' num2str(expVal) '$'],...
    'Interpreter','latex',...
    'VerticalAlignment','bottom',...
    'EdgeColor','none')

[Sam Alex]

Thank you

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Add to your code

set(gca,'xlim',[0 6])

[Sam Alex]

It did not make a difference!

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

There is a difference, in this case, x-ticks are visibles

close
xVals = 0:.6:6;
set(gca,'xtick',xVals);
expVal = 4; %exponent you want
set(gca,'XTickLabel',sprintf('%2.1f|',xVals));%10^expVal));
pos = get(gca,'Position');
offset = 0.00; %how far to the right you want the exponent
annotation('textbox',[pos(1)+ pos(3)+offset, pos(2), 0.2, 0.2],...
'String',['$\times 10^' num2str(expVal) '$'],...
'Interpreter','latex',...
'VerticalAlignment','bottom',...
'EdgeColor','none')
set(gca,'xlim',[0 6])

[Sam Alex]

Something happens when I add this to my code, it removes all markers and the look of the original plot

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Post the code which is making a problem