This is an example of how to customize polar axes settings in a plot in MATLAB®.
Read about the polaraxes function in the MATLAB documentation. This feature is available in R2016a or newer.
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% Create data theta = 0:0.01:2*pi; rho = sin(2*theta).*cos(2*theta); % Create polar plot figure polarplot(theta,rho) % Modify polar axes settings pax = gca; pax.ThetaDir = 'clockwise'; pax.FontSize = 12;