Question

Tick labels for ticks bigger than about 10’000, get formatted to 1×10^4 for example. Whereas the exponential part appears above the corresponding axes. This misbehavior has been well described on on matlab central as well, but without a solution.

Thanks for your help.

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The ‘quick trick’

set(gca, 'YTickLabel',get(gca,'YTick'))

did not work when applied to bar3, as can be seen on the following figure.

Answer 1

One way to get better control over tick labels, and to avoid the exponential formatting, is to use TICK2TEXT from the File Exchange.

Here’s an example:

y = cool(7); %# define some data
ah = axes; %# create new axes and remember handle
bar3(ah,y*1E6,'detached'); %# create a 3D bar plot
tick2text(ah, 'ztickoffset' ,-1.15,'zformat', '%5.0f', 'axis','z') %# fix the tick labels