In certain situations, it may be desirable to override the automatic axis scaling feature of the plot command and manually select the axis limits. Manual axis scaling is easily accomplished from the Properties Editor window mentioned above. Alternatively, manual Axes Scaling can be accomplished from the Matlab workspace by creating a vector, V, with the following configuration V=[X-min, X-max, Y-min, Y-max] Working from the example graph above, let’s say you wanted to scale the X axis from –5 to 5 and the Y axis from –1.5 to 1.5. Enter the following: V = [-5, 5, -1.5, 1.5] axis(V) Retype the plot command plot(x,y,x,z) to observe the rescaled graph. The command axis(V) sets the axis scaling to the prescribed limits. If you reenter the command: axis autoscaling is resumed. Again, retype the command, plot(x,y,x,z), to observe the graph.