How to increase the thickness of the Ticks of the axes

How to increase the thickness of the Ticks of the axes

[dpb]

Think only way (at least unless new property is added in last release) would be to draw them manually; there is no such property in classic handle graphics afaik.

Answer 1

[Stalin Samuel]

set(gca,'LineWidth',2,'TickLength',[0.025 0.025]);

[dpb]

Does this actually change the tick mark width in a later release than R2012b (it doesn't here with that rev...)