How to copy figure settings using the drop down menus in Figure?

I have carefully edited a complex figure using the drop down menu in the Figure panel, Edit/Figure Properties and Edit/Axes Properties:

How can I use the Edit dropdown menu now to Save these settings and apply them to other figures? The instructions on the relevant Mathworks webpage (https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/customize-figure-before-saving.html#bupekdj-5) didn't work for me. Has anyone used the "export" and "save" functions on one figure and got them to export and apply to another figure?

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

[Michael L]

 File > Generate Code

That should do the trick for you!

[Stephen]

Thanks, Michael! I'm a real novice, though, and I don't know what to do next. As you suggested, I used the pull down menu under File > generate code. I got the small dialog box indicating that something was happening, and then after a few moments, 956 lines appeared in my MatLab editor, starting with "function createfigure(ZData1, YData1, XData1, CData1, ZData2, ...

How do I use this on another figure? What do I do next to apply all those settings? (I was hoping to use the drop down menus in Figure instead of lines of script in MatLab, if possible).

[Stephen]

I tried working with the Matlab code...too complicated for me. Is there any way to use the pulldown menu in Figure>File>Export Settings to clone the figure settings?

[Stephen]

OK, I finally resolved the problem. I was trying to clone a ribbon plot that had >150 "ribbons" (X Y Z data) and thus was getting hundreds of comment lines and instructions on how to handle each separate "ribbon". By scrolling to the end, I found the key lines of the script:

set(axes, yada yada yada...)

and was able to copy/paste that on to my original script to get what I needed.