Problem with Plot 3D

Hello Matlab Community,

I am trying to plot a 3D coloured with some data, however the plot is looking a bit different. The negative and positive values in the Z matrix are identical only difference is the sign. But the plot doesnt look identical in the negative and positive axis. It would be great if someone could help me with this.

data = readtable('Data1.xlsx');
x = data(:,1:3);
x = table2array(x);
t = data(:,4);
t = table2array(t);
X = x(:,1);
Y = x(:,3);
Z = t;
N = 200 ;
x = linspace(min(X),max(X),N) ;
y = linspace(min(Y),max(Y),N) ;
[Xi,Yi] = meshgrid(x,y) ;
Zi = griddata(X,Y,Z,Xi,Yi) ;
surf(Xi,Yi,Zi)

[Rik]

Why did you delete the excel file? If you don't want public help, you should have hired a private consultant.

Why should the figure (or the axis labels) be removed? Without the rest of the paper, this doesn't say much.

[ragnor]

Hello Mr. Rik

I have added the excel sheet back, it was just a silly recording mistake and the corrected file is already uploaded by the person who answered the question.

Also, thanks for you valuable advice. Will keep it mind.

Regards

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

It looks like, in your Excel sheet, you have erroneously recorded all Y values of -7 as 7. That could explain part of the issue.

Once that is done, you might quickly view the results with the following code.

% Load data
data = readtable('Data1.xlsx','VariableNamingRule',"preserve");
data.Properties.VariableNames = ["X","F_sw","Y","Z"];
% order the data
data = sortrows(data,["X","Y"]);
X = unique(data.X);
Y = unique(data.Y);
Z = reshape(data.Z,[length(Y),length(X)]);
% View
figure
surf(X,Y,Z)

[ragnor]

Thank you very much. I really appreciate the help.

[ragnor]

Hello Cris,

For the same data, i have plotted the 3D surface as suggested by you. I wanted to add legends to the plot. For example, i want to name the red circle markers as something and the interpolated grey area as something. Do you think it is possible?

That would be really helpful if you could help me with this.

% Load data
data = readtable('Data1.xlsx');
data.Properties.VariableNames = ["X","F_sw","Y","Z"];
% order the data
data = sortrows(data,["X","Y"]);
X = unique(data.X);
Y = unique(data.Y);
Z = reshape(data.Z,[length(Y),length(X)]);
% View
figure(1)
s = surf(X,Y,Z);
set(get(gca,'XLabel'),'FontSize',10, 'fontweight', 'normal');
set(get(gca,'YLabel'),'FontSize',10, 'fontweight', 'normal');
set(get(gca,'zLabel'),'FontSize',10, 'fontweight', 'normal');
set(get(gca,'title'),'FontSize',10, 'fontweight', 'normal');
set(s,'Marker','o');
set(s,'MarkerEdgeColor',[0 0 0]);
set(s,'MarkerFaceColor',[1 0 0]);
set(s,'MarkerSize',4);
%set(s,'FaceColor','auto' );
set(s,'FaceColor',[0.784 0.816 0.831] );
legend()

 h=figure(1);
 ifig1=1;
 fileName1='figure';
 iChar = num2str(ifig1);    
 fileName2 = strcat(fileName1,iChar);
 fileNameWithExt = strcat('c:\surfplot\',fileName2,'.fig');
 saveas(h,fileNameWithExt);

[Cris LaPierre]

Legend items correspond to plot objects. If you want two items in your legend, you need two distinct objects in your axes. You currently have one, a surface. Create your surface using surf, and add a second object for your markers, perhaps using scatter, and then you can create a legend with 2 items in it.

% Load data
data = readtable('Data1.xlsx');

Warning: Column headers from the file were modified to make them valid MATLAB identifiers before creating variable names for the table. The original column headers are saved in the VariableDescriptions property.
Set 'VariableNamingRule' to 'preserve' to use the original column headers as table variable names.

data.Properties.VariableNames = ["X","F_sw","Y","Z"];
% order the data
data = sortrows(data,["X","Y"]);
X = unique(data.X);
Y = unique(data.Y);
Z = reshape(data.Z,[length(Y),length(X)]);
% View
figure(1)
scatter3(data.X,data.Y,data.Z,12,[1 0 0],"filled","MarkerEdgeColor",[0 0 0])
hold on
s = surf(X,Y,Z,"FaceColor",[0.784 0.816 0.831]);
hold off

xlabel('DC-Link Voltage (V)',"FontSize",10,"FontWeight","normal");
ylabel('Phase Current (A)',"FontSize",10,"FontWeight","normal");
zlabel('Error Voltage (V)',"FontSize",10,"FontWeight","normal");
title('title','FontSize',10,'fontweight', 'normal');

legend("Label 1","Label 2")