Program output is correct but not plotting anything

I've written a program in MATLAB that prints data that is correct but when I attempt to plot these values nothing comes up.

Answer 1

[Nicolas B.]

Hi Griffin,

please in future, post your code into the post. It makes the life of others easier than having to read it into a figure.

In your case, the reason why it is not plotting a line is pretty simple. Your vectors "t" and "thrust_force" are in fact scalars because the for loop uses t as an "index" and you erase thrust_force variable at each iteration.

I would recommand you to write your loop like that:

% create vector t and thrust_force to avoir resizing at each iteration
t = 0:80;
thrust_force = NaN(size(t)); % init it with a vector of NaN of the size of t

% loop with ii as index of t and thrust_force
for ii = 1:numel(t)
    thrust_force(ii) = tug_thrust(t(ii));
end

Regards