How to plot a shape away from the x and y axis?

Hi,

I want to plot shapes but I don't want them to be on the axis (I don't want to remove the axis though).

Here is my program: h=input('What shape do you want?:','s'); a=input('The length of a side is (m):'); if strcmp(h, 'square') plot([0 0 a a 0],[0 a a 0 0],'r','LineWidth',3) end

Answer 1

[jonas]

Just adjust the axes limits

h=input('What shape do you want?:','s'); 
a=input('The length of a side is (m):'); 
if strcmp(h, 'square') 
    plot([0 0 a a 0],[0 a a 0 0],'r','LineWidth',3) 
    xlim([-a 2*a]);
    ylim([-a 2*a]);
end