MATLAB: How to turn pixel values to mm on axes

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Hello

As far as I know, Matlab plots give X,Y in pixel values. How do I turn them to units of length? E.g. milimeters? mm. I want X,Y values to appear as mm.

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first find, how many pixels =1mm?

suppose10 pixel=1mm;

X_in_mm=X./10;
Y_in_mm=y./10;
xlabel('x in mm')
ylabel('y in mm')

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