polar plots axis limits
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How does one set the axis limits in polar plots?
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Patrick Kalita
on 7 Jun 2011
Well, unfortunately there's no direct way to do it. But you can cheat (yay! cheating!). Let's say you know you want to have the radial dimension go out to 2. You can add a line of constant radius and then make it invisible:
t = 0 : .01 : 2 * pi;
P = polar(t, 2 * ones(size(t)));
set(P, 'Visible', 'off')
Now you can add the data you actually want to plot:
hold on
polar(t, sin(2 * t) .* cos(2 * t), '--r')
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Steven Lord
on 29 Dec 2016
With the introduction of the polaraxes function in release R2016a you now have access to properties like ThetaLim and RLim.
Mazin Mustafa
on 29 Dec 2016
Edited: Mazin Mustafa
on 29 Dec 2016
If you want to plot something such as antenna pattern for e.g. -40 dB to 0dB you may use the following code:
data = 10*log10(abs(data)./max(abs(data))); % Normalize your data
range = -40; % Choose the minimum value in dB
data(isnan(data)) = range;
data = data - range;
data = data./max(data);
data(data < 0) = 0;
polar(theta,data,'k')
view([90 270])
set(findall(gcf, 'String', '0' ),'String', ' ');
set(findall(gcf, 'String', ' 0.2' ),'String', num2str(range-(range*0.2)) );
set(findall(gcf, 'String', ' 0.4' ),'String', num2str(range-(range*0.4)) );
set(findall(gcf, 'String', ' 0.6' ),'String', num2str(range-(range*0.6)) );
set(findall(gcf, 'String', ' 0.8' ),'String', num2str(range-(range*0.8)) );
set(findall(gcf, 'String', ' 1' ),'String', '0 dB' );
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rhashaan omar
on 9 Sep 2020
could you explain? I'm trying to plot a graph of antenna radiation from -30 to 10 dB. I have a table of the values I digitized using an onlne website, but I can't scale my graph to match the original graph.
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