advanced way to export figures using hgexport with matlab

i will explain how to export figures to a file using hgexport with matlab.
here is how:
first you need to create the figure:

h.figure = figure
clf
position = get(gcf,'Position');
set(h.figure,'Color','w',...
'PaperPositionMode', 'auto', ...
'Units','in','Position',[position(1:2) 6 2.5 ],...
'PaperPosition',[0.25 0.25 6 2.5])

then, plot the figure. use all the commands you like, like plot, stairs and subplot...
at the end, export the figure using hgexport:

myStyle = hgexport('factorystyle');
myStyle.Format = 'png';
myStyle.Width = 6;
myStyle.Height = 2.5;
myStyle.Resolution = 300;
myStyle.Units = 'inch';
myStyle.FixedFontSize = 12;
hgexport(h.figure,'fileout.png',myStyle,'Format','png')

with Width and Height you can control the size of the file in inch (units).

about renderers and exporting figures

Today i was having trouble exporting a figure using the opengl renderer (default for surfaces). To see which renderer a figure is using, use this command:

get(gcf,'Renderer')

The solution was to change the renderer to z-buffer. To do so, just use this command:

set(gcf,'Renderer','zbuffer')

This was necessary to export my carpetplots using the command:

myStyle = hgexport('factorystyle');
myStyle.Format = 'png';
myStyle.Width = 6;
myStyle.Height = 4;
myStyle.Resolution = 300;
myStyle.Units = 'inch';
myStyle.FixedFontSize = 12;
hgexport(h.fig,'filename.png',myStyle,'Format','png')

See my other posts to know more about the carpetplot function.

Libraries in Simulink -

It is very important to use libraries in simulink if you have peaces of code (or subsystems) that repeats over a modell or even more. Take a look at this posting from Seth, and learn how to create and use libraries in simulink.

Saving figures from the command line in Matlab

In the documentation of the function saveas you can read, that there is an alternative using the gui: file -> save as....

for me, this 2 methods did a different grafic, because of the different resolution used to export the figure.

There is an article in the mathworks technical solutions that handles this, but i was unable to create a grafic and save a file that looks exaclty as the plotted figure.

Save Time writing M-Functions in Matlab

If you usually write m-Functions, you can consider using Templates to save time. In this blog you can find a small tutorial on how to use templates.

The time you need to write a new function, you just open a "new function M-File" (see picture above).

matlab and memory

here is some interesting information about matlab and memory allocation. if you get the error "out of memory", you should read this article.

About Algebraic Loops

There is a new posting from Seth about algebraic loops in simulink which ich found very interesting. have a look at the original posting here.