Show tick marks above plot

I have a 3D plot that I am viewing from the top, so that it looks like a 2D plot. How can I display the tick marks above the plot? I tried using

 set(gca, 'Layer', 'top')

but that only brought the major tick marks to the top and left the minor tick marks hidden. Worse, it also brought the dotted gridlines, which I do not want to see, to the top.

[itamar luzon]

I know it's been a long time, but

use this after ploting

set(gca,'Layer','top')

Answer 1

[junlong]

I was looking for the same thing, and I think you almost got the answer. Just turn the grid off.

set(gca, 'Layer', 'top');

grid off

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Use

a=xlim;
set(gca,'xlabel',linspace(a(1),a(2),8))

%do the same for ylabel and zlabel

[Bernoulli Lizard]

This did not work. I get the 'invalid object handle' error.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

You must insert the above code after your plot

[Maciej Dabrowski]

I didn't work for me as well. I'm getting Error using matlab.graphics.axis.Axes/set

Error setting property 'XLabel' of class 'Axes':

Value must be a handle.

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

hAx = axes;
plot(1:10);
set(hAx,'XAxisLocation','Top');

[Bernoulli Lizard]

This doesn't do what I want. It just moves the x axis to the top end of the y axis.

[Bernoulli Lizard]

Is there a way to move it to the top of the z-axis instead?

[Sean de Wolski]

Hi Bernoulli,

I guess I don't see why this wouldn't work:

hAx = axes;
surf(hAx,peaks)
set(hAx,'XAxisLocation','Top');
view(2)
xlabel('Hello World')

Please post a picture of what you expect, and where.

Answer 4

[Amelie]

Unfortunaltely, I have a similar problem.

I have a 2D plot and the plot is above the y axis so that the y axis line and the y ticks are not visible. I used different variations of "...'YAxisLocation','Top');" that were recommended in the forum, but all of them result in the Error message

"Error setting property 'YAxisLocation' of class 'Axes':

'top' is not a valid value. Use one of these values: 'left' | 'right' | 'origin'."

or I don't see a difference at all. The command set(gca, 'Layer', 'top') works fine. Now the problem is that I need the grids in the background of the plot, which is why I'm using grid on. But with this command, I don't get the y-axis/yticks in the foreground without getting automatically also the grids in the foreground.

Can someone tell me, how I can get the y-axis/yticks in the foreground but grids in the background?

Thank you very much for your help!