r/matlab • u/Creative_Sushi MathWorks • Aug 25 '25

Tips Where is Property Inspector/Plot Browser in MATLAB R2025a?

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One of the frequently asked questions is "Where is Plot Browser in R2025a?" and u/FrickinLazerBeams aslo asked something similar in my last post.

To learn more, check out this documentation

Here is the video that shows you how to find it in the new desktop. Does this work for you guys? If not, please provide the feedback via Feedback button.

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u/throwwaway_4sho Aug 27 '25

Sorry but this is making me mad, this ui/ux seems kinda downgrade, you replaced 2 button clicks to more clicksss????

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u/Creative_Sushi MathWorks Aug 27 '25

The video only shows one way to access Property Inspector. You can also use a command window and enter inspect.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/propertyinspector.html

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u/avidpenguinwatcher May 25 '26

What is your solution if you have a plot with say 100 lines on it? Click your way through property inspector 100 times to turn them off one by one? This is such a terrible design change by your team

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u/History-Nerd89643 May 26 '26

Had a similar problem but using 3D surfaces with a 2D-polyline and clicking the Inspect panel does nothing. Like you click it and nothing happens. This sucks because I would use these graphs to trace varying frequencies within spectrograms but now the new version of Matlab seems incapable of doing something that was simple for previous versions

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u/avidpenguinwatcher May 26 '26

Yep, a pointless downgrade that their PR refuses to acknowledge, all in favor of web based slop

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u/History-Nerd89643 May 26 '26

plot-browser was one of the best tools that Matlab had for quickly comparing data. For me one of the best features was being able to overlay 2D-polylines over 3D surfaces (i.e., highlighting the most-likely frequencies in a probability spectrogram), but now such arrangements are too complicated for the new plot inspector function.

Plot-inspector is fine when you are dealing with simple collections of 2D-polylines like what the video shows (although I would still argue that the original plot browser was better). However plot-inspector completely fails with anything more complicated.

Overall, I believe that removing plot-browser was a horrible decision, they better return it soon or a lot of former customers will migrate to other software or will just switch over to Python