University of Technology

Production Engineering and Metallurgy Department

3D Plots

Computer Programming II
2nd class
CAD/CAM
Lecture 06
Dr. Baraa Mohsen
 Matlab provides a wide range of 3D plot options.

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 Plot3
 Plots lines and points in space, just like plot but now for an
(x,y,z) pair
 Plot3(x,y,z), each a vector of equal length
 Use all the same specifiers to generate colors, line-types, etc.

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 Plot commands
 Note that almost all 2D plotting commands
such as xlabel, ylabel, title will still work in
3D plots
 3D plots can be added as subplots just like
any other plot type
 Some other special features and functions
exist…

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Example:
x=linspace(0,2*pi,100);
y=sin(x);
z=x;
plot3(x,y,z,'LineWidth',2);
xlabel('xlabel here')
ylabel('ylabel here')
zlabel('zlabel here')
title('title here')

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 bar graph
Example:

y=[5 2 1; 8 7 3; 9 8 6; 5 5 5; 4 3 2] ;
bar (y)

or

y=[5 2 1;
8 7 3;
9 8 6;
5 5 5;
4 3 2] ;
bar (y)

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 Bar Graph 3D
Example:
y=[5 2 1;
8 7 3;
9 8 6;
5 5 5;
4 3 2] ;
bar3 (y)

xlabel('x axis')
ylabel('y axis')
zlabel('z axis')

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 area graph

Example:

y=[5 2 1;
8 7 3;
9 8 6;
5 5 5;
4 3 2];

area (y)

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 stairstep graph
Example:

x=linspace(0,2*pi,20);
subplot (2,1,1)
stairs(x, cos(x))
ylabel ('stairs')

subplot (2,1,2)
plot(x, cos(x))

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 Mesh
Connects a series of discrete data points with a mesh:
• mesh(x,y,z) where X(i) and Y(j) are the intersections of
the mesh and Z(i,j) is the height at that intersection.
• mesh(Z) assumes X and Y are simple 1..N and 1..M

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 Meshc,surfc
 Combination surface/mesh and contour plot
 Use like surf or mesh – meshc(x,y,z)

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Example:
x=-10:10;
y = -10:10;
z= x.^2'*y.^2;
mesh(x,y,z)

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Example:
x=-10:10;
y = -10:10;
z= x.^2'*y.^2;
surf (x,y,z)

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