MATLAB: How to create a patch object without actually plotting it.

Question

Hello everyone!

I have some data, say [X,Y,Z] and when I use the Patch command it creates a figure and gives me a shape.

I would like to supress the actual figure, and make the code display it later on.

My two problems are: 1) How do I supress the plotting of the patch? 2) How do I display a patch object in a new figure?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

 h=patch(X,Y,Z,'r','visible','off');

and then, when you need it

 set(h,'visible','on');