How do i set the axis labels to a specific size?

I would really like to set the axis in centimeters. The main problem is that my figure is off scale when i change the size of the window. i want to set the axis tickmarks so they have a specific length value and wont change length if the size of the window is changed.

Answer 1

[Marc Jakobi]

Try playing around with the XTick and YTick properties in the axes.

You can save the XTick and YTick after creating the figure:

ax = gca;
xt = ax.XTick;
yt = ax.YTick;

after resizing the figure, you can set

ax.XTick = xt;
ax.YTick = yt;

to keep the ticks of the original figure.

[Emily Smith]

does that change the length as well? or does it just label the tick marks?

[Marc Jakobi]

XTick and YTick change the labels and the distance between ticks. You can set the length with the TickLength property.