How to get professional Simulink Figures
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I am working on a Simulink model of a wind turbine system and I am struggling to produce clean, professional-quality plots suitable for a dissertation/report.
At the moment I am using Scope blocks and then using the "Print to figure" feature. I would like advice on best practices for exporting signals from Simulink (e.g., Scope vs To Workspace vs Data Inspector). For my report I will be including a large amount of figures so I am very conscious of the size of the figures, here is an example from a report which has small figures like i am trying to do :
I have being expermenting with setting the aspect ratio to 1,1,1 which helps and using the painter renderer along with exporting in .emf. I have also tried exporting at specifc dimensions for the figure but that can ruin the plot. What is the standard approach used in research/industry to generate clean figures from Simulink simulations?
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Mathieu NOE
on 9 Apr 2026
hello
it's a personnal choice but I would rather export the simulink data to workspace and create the plots with matlab
there is a ton of possibilities via matlab (but I have nothing against simulink data inspector, but IMHO it's more for yourself doing the daily work rather than for publication)
there are also several tool available on the Fex , like :
Callum
on 10 Apr 2026
Mathieu NOE
on 13 Apr 2026
as always, my pleasure !
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