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viewArray

System object: phased.PartitionedArray
Package: phased

View array geometry

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Syntax

viewArray(H)
viewArray(H,Name,Value)
hPlot = viewArray(___)

Description

viewArray(H) plots the geometry of the array specified in H.

viewArray(H,Name,Value) plots the geometry of the array, with additional options specified by one or more Name,Value pair arguments.

hPlot = viewArray(___) returns the handles of the array elements in the figure window. All input arguments described for the previous syntaxes also apply here.

Input Arguments

H

Array object.

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Before R2021a, use commas to separate each name and value, and enclose Name in quotes.

Parent

Handle to the axes along which the array geometry is displayed.

ShowNormals

Set this value to true to show the normal directions of all elements of the array. Set this value to false to plot the elements without showing normal directions.

Default: false

ShowLocalCoordinates

Logical flag specifying whether to show the local coordinate axes.

Default: true

ShowAnnotation

Logical flag specifying whether to show the annotations in the UI panel of the figure. Annotation shows aperture size and element spacing based on array axis of array.

Default: true

Orientation

Orientation of the array, specified as a 3-by-1 column vector containing the rotation angles with respect to the x-, y-, and z-axes of the local coordinate system, respectively. The default value is [0;0;0].

Default: [0;0;0]

ShowTaper

Set this value to true to specify whether to change the element color brightness in proportion to the element taper magnitude. When this value is set to false, all elements are drawn with the same color. The default value is false.

Default: false

ShowIndex

Vector specifying the element indices to show in the figure. Each number in the vector must be an integer between 1 and the number of elements. You can also specify the value 'All' to show indices of all elements of the array or 'None' to suppress indices.

Default: 'None'

ShowSubarray

Vector specifying the indices of subarrays to highlight in the figure. Each number in the vector must be an integer between 1 and the number of subarrays. You can also specify the value 'All' to highlight all subarrays of the array or 'None' to suppress the subarray highlighting. The highlighting uses different colors for different subarrays, and white for elements that occur in multiple subarrays.

Default: 'All'

Title

Character vector specifying the title of the plot.

Default: 'Array Geometry'

Output Arguments

hPlot

Handles of array elements in figure window.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Display the geometry of a uniform linear array having overlapped subarrays.

Create a 16-element ULA that has five 4-element subarrays. Some elements occur in more than one subarray.

h = phased.ULA(16);
ha = phased.PartitionedArray('Array',h,...
    'SubarraySelection',...
    [1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;...
    0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;...
    0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;...
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0;...
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1]);

Display the geometry of the array, highlighting all subarrays.

viewArray(ha);

Each color other than white represents a different subarray. White represents elements that occur in multiple subarrays.

Examine the overlapped subarrays by creating separate figures that highlight the first, second, and third subarrays. In each figure, dark blue represents the highlighted elements.

for idx = 1:3
    figure;
    viewArray(ha,'ShowSubarray',idx,...
        'Title',['Subarray #' num2str(idx)]);
end

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