How do you turn off theta and radius labels in a polar plot?

How do you turn off theta and radius labels in a polar plot? I have turned off the grid with grid off. There doesn't seem to be a theta or radius label off.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

See the documentation on PolarAxes Properties (link), specifically those in the Grid Lines (link) section.

[Ron Beck]

Thanks, I have already done this. I am trying to remove the fonts describing theta and radius.

[Ron Beck]

I was able to hide them by setting RColor to 'w' and ThetaColor to 'w'. I was trying to hide radius and theta labels.

[Star Strider]

You might be able to do it by setting:

Ax = gca;
Ax.RTickLabel = [];
Ax.ThetaTickLabel = [];

That worked when I tried it just now. The grid remains, only the labels disappear.

[Star Strider]

Ron Beck’s Answer moved here:

Sorry, but it did not work for me.

ax = gca; % current axes ax.ThetaGrid = 'off'; ax.RGrid = 'off'; Ax.RTickLabel = []; Ax.ThetaTickLabel = [];

[Star Strider]

Try this instead:

Ax = gca; % current axes
Ax.ThetaGrid = 'off';
Ax.RGrid = 'off';
Ax.RTickLabel = []; 
Ax.ThetaTickLabel = [];

MATLAB is case-sensitive, so ‘ax’ is not the same as ‘Ax’.

[Ron Beck]

Thanks, it worked. Sorry but case differences was a rookie mistake.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure.

No worries! The lower-case ‘ax’ should have thrown an error, unless you had another axis structure named ‘ax’ defined in your workspace. (It would have affected those axes instead.)