How to change figure axes aspect ratio

I have a figure, but the x axis has bunched up, Its range is about 36 units long while, the y and z axes are just four, and Matlab seems to auto bunch the values, It's making my figure look silly. Tried to write a line to change DataAspectRatio but it doesn't work, perhaps my syntax is incorrect. I can change it manually in drop down menus but I need it to do things automatically. Currently DataAspectRatio is stuck at [8.8889,1,1]. I need it at [1,1,1].

Thanks

[dpb]

Can you attach a short piece of code that produces the errant figure? Hard to know what's going on w/o anything specific to look at...

Answer 1

[Brian Dowling]

Apologies!

This is the piece of code that didn't quite work:

set('DataAspectRatio',[1,1,1]); 

As you can see the x-axis is somewhat squashed! I need these values to 'spread out' so to speak so the values are equally spaced. I can change it in the following menu, but need to write a line of code, as I need to execute the section multiple times:

[Walter Roberson]

set(gca,'DataAspectRatio', [1 1 1]);

[Brian Dowling]

If I was beside you I would shake your hand and buy you a beer. Worked a charm!