MATLAB: Line Plot with Markers possible

Question

Hello,

I am plotting a dataset and, as you can see, when a hysteresis is closed he gets back to a certain point. That's what the code does and that is good so far but in the plot he jumps to that certain point and plots a line:

When the plotting is done with a marker the line won't appear.

I'd prefer to use a line plot. Is there a trick to avoid "jumping-lines" in a line plot or maybe use lines in a marker-plot?

my code:

hp=plot(0,0, 'o');  %initial plot
for i=1:  ...
    %calculating stress - strain relation, then   
      set(hp,'xdata',Eps(1:i),'ydata',Sig(1:i))
      pause(0.1)
      drawnow
  end

Regards

Answer 1

To avoid "line jumping" you need to insert a NaN or Inf into the data at the place you want the break to appear.

You can get a line plot by changing

hp=plot(0,0, 'o');  %initial plot

to something like

hp=plot(0,0, '-');  %initial plot