Draw arc in Matlab?

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juliavins03 · Apr 15, 2020 · 2.2K views
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In Matlab is there any special function to draw arc with user defined radius, points and angle. If it is not there how is it possible to draw a curve in a figure using user defined radius,angles, points etc.
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Answered Aug 21, 2026
There are no such functions in core MATLAB, but they’re easy enough to write.
This code plots an arc of stars:
 
circr = @(radius,rad_ang)  [radius*cos(rad_ang);  radius*sin(rad_ang)];         % Circle Function For Angles In Radians
circd = @(radius,deg_ang)  [radius*cosd(deg_ang);  radius*sind(deg_ang)];       % Circle Function For Angles In Degrees

N = 25;                                                         % Number Of Points In Complete Circle
r_angl = linspace(pi/4, 3*pi/4, N);                             % Angle Defining Arc Segment (radians)
radius = 1.5;                                                   % Arc Radius
xy_r = circr(radius,r_angl);                                    % Matrix (2xN) Of (x,y) Coordinates

figure(1)
plot(xy_r(1,:), xy_r(2,:), 'bp')                                % Draw An Arc Of Blue Stars
axis([-1.25*radius  1.25*radius    0  1.25*radius])             % Set Axis Limits
axis equal                                                      % No Distortion With ‘axis equal’

arc

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