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Specify Plotting Preferences for Linear Analysis

You can use the Control System Toolbox™ editors to set properties and preferences in Control System Designer, Linear System Analyzer, and any response plots that you create from the MATLAB® command line.

Properties refer to settings that are specific to an individual response plot, such as:

  • Axes labels and limits

  • Data units and scales

  • Plot styles, such as grids and fonts

  • Plot characteristics, such as rise time, peak response, and stability margins

Preferences refer to properties that persist either within a single app session or across Control System Toolbox sessions.

To control the visualization of time-domain and frequency-domain response plots, you can specify the following:

When you update toolbox or app preferences, the new configuration applies only to new plots and does not affect existing plots.

Property and Preferences Hierarchy

This figure shows the inheritance hierarchy from toolbox preferences to plot properties.

When you open a new app session, the app preferences are inherited from the toolbox preferences. You can then customize the app preferences for that session. When you save a Control System Designer session, the preferences for that session are also saved.

Response plot properties are inherited from:

  • Toolbox preferences when the plots are created at the command line.

  • App preferences when the plots are created in an app.

After you create a response plot, you can then modify its properties to values that differ form the toolbox or app preferences.

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