How to make more tick marks appear in graph?

Question

I want more tick marks appear in graph. For example, if I do this: plot(1:1000), I get the following:

How to make more tick marks appear as shown at the X-axis of the following figure?

I want to do the same for Y-axis. Customizing this is not documented.

The [documentation explains](https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/change-tick-marks-and-tick-labels-of-graph-1.html) how to modify the [tick locations](https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/axes-properties.html#property_XTick) and [tick labels](https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/axes-properties.html#property_XTickLabel) — sco1, Oct 27 '16 at 17:46
@excaza i have read it but couldnt find my answer. I am trying to add just more tick lines between two labels as I shown in the question. — EkEhsaas, Oct 27 '16 at 17:57
@mpaskov notice the more tick lines between labels on the x-axis — EkEhsaas, Oct 27 '16 at 17:57
You already did it for the X-axis, with some command, modifying the command for Y-axis did not work? — mpaskov, Oct 27 '16 at 18:16
@mpaskov I did that to x-axis with paint. I want to do this with matlab — EkEhsaas, Oct 27 '16 at 18:22
My bad it looked like it was done in matlab, impresive paint skills. Well @rayryeng solution is a good start — mpaskov, Oct 27 '16 at 18:31

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '16 at 18:06

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For more recent versions of MATLAB you simply grab the axes and change the YMinorTick property to 'on':

plot(1:1000);
ax = gca;
ax.YMinorTick = 'on';

For older versions, you have to grab the axes using the set function:

plot(1:1000);
set(gca, 'YMinorTick', 'on');

We get:

answered Oct 27 '16 at 18:06

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Sir, this is almost what i want but is this possible that I give ,say 5, tick lines to appear between all points instead of letting matlab to decide that – EkEhsaas Oct 27 '16 at 18:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 27 '16 at 19:53

If you have MATLAB 2016a or later you can use the Ruler properties:

plot(1:1000);
ax = gca;
ax.YMinorTick = 'on';
ax.YAxis.MinorTickValuesMode = 'manual'; % prevents MATLAB form update it
tick_gap = ax.YAxis.TickValues(2)-ax.YAxis.TickValues(1);
minor_tick_no = 5;
minor_gap = tick_gap/minor_tick_no;
ax.YAxis.MinorTickValues = ax.YAxis.TickValues(1)+minor_gap:...
    minor_gap:ax.YAxis.TickValues(end);

And the same for the ax.XAxis property.

Thank you.This is exactly what I want – EkEhsaas Oct 27 '16 at 20:21 — EkEhsaas, Oct 27 '16 at 20:21

How to make more tick marks appear in graph?

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