Matlab - refresh 3D volume (slice) with GUI - matlab

I would like to refresh my figure (3D, obtained with the matlab slice command) using a slider (GUI) to update the slice position.
Here is my code to create the figure (it works):
% Create figure
Fig_3dview = figure;
Fig_3dview.Name= 'Microstructure viewer';
% hold on;
% The data to be displayed are within "Volume", a n*m*k matrix
Domain_size = size(Volume)
% Initial position of the slices
% Basically, the 6 faces of the volume
xslice = [1,Domain_size(1)];
yslice = [1,Domain_size(2)];
zslice = [1,Domain_size(3)];
% Display all the slices
imslice = slice(Volume,xslice,yslice,zslice,'parent',Fig_3dview);
% Remove voxel edge
set(imslice,'edgecolor','none')
% Current axis label
ax_3d_slice = gca;
% Set axis equal and tight
axis equal tight
hold off;
The code for the GUI, to control the slice position (it doesn't work):
% Create GUI figure
Fig_3dview_GUI = figure;
Fig_3dview_GUI.Name= 'Microstructure viewer 3D GUI';
% Create slider
h_slice1 = uicontrol('Style','slider','BackgroundColor','w',...
'Unit','pixels','Position',[10,200,250,50],'Parent',Fig_3dview_GUI,...
'Callback',{#slider_slice1_Callback});
% Define function associated with h_slice1
function slider_slice1_Callback(source,eventdata)
% Determine the selected data set.
pos_normalized = source.Value;
position_slice_1= round(pos_normalized*Domain_size(1)); % Get closest integer value
position_slice_1=max(1,position_slice_1); % 0 must be avoided
% Update figure
And here I don't know how to update the figure Fig_3dview with the new position for the slice normal to the first direction.
I would like the new figure looks like:
xslice = [position_slice_1,Domain_size(1)];
imslice = slice(Volume,xslice,yslice,zslice,'parent',Fig_3dview);
I do not want to close the figure and regenerate it, I want to refresh it, so that I get a smooth visualization.
% Update figure
end
Thanks for any advice.
François

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I tried drawnow limitrate but it's to fast.
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Matlab plot of several digital signals

I'm trying to find a way to nicely plot my measurement data of digital signals.
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What I'm trying to achieve is something similar to this picture:
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My first try was to make a similar plot with Matlab. Here's what I got:
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I'm not even sure if Matlab is the right tool for this and I hope you guys can give me some hints/a solution on how to make my plots :-)
Here's my Matlab code:
clear;
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clc;
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MD.N(2) = {'CONF\_DONE'};
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MD.N(6) = {'2V5GD'};
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MD.N(8) = {'5VGD'};
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MD.RAW.Trace_D4(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D5(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D6(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D7(:,2), ...
MD.RAW.Trace_D8(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D9(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D10(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D11(:,2), ...
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% change timebase to ns
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Dan
EDIT:
Here's a pic what I basically want. I added the signal names via text now the only thing that's missing are the 0, 1 ticks. They are correct for the init done signal. Now I just need them repeated instead of the other numbers on the y axis (sorry, kinda hard to explain :-)
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clear;
close all;
clc;
MD.RAW = load('Daten/UVLOT1 debounced 0.mat'); % get MeasurementData
MD.N(1) = {'INIT\_DONE'};
MD.N(2) = {'CONF\_DONE'};
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MD.N(6) = {'2V5GD'};
MD.N(7) = {'3V3GD'};
MD.N(8) = {'5VGD'};
MD.N(9) = {'NERR'};
MD.N(10) = {'PGD'};
MD.N(11) = {'FGD'};
MD.N(12) = {'IGAGD'};
MD.N(13) = {'GT1'};
MD.N(14) = {'NERRA'};
MD.N(15) = {'GT1D'};
MD.N(16) = {'GB1D'};
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MD.RAW.Trace_D4(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D5(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D6(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D7(:,2), ...
MD.RAW.Trace_D8(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D9(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D10(:,2), MD.RAW.Trace_D11(:,2), ...
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set(gca, 'ytick', 0:size(MD.D,2)*2-3);
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Image in gui with gridlines convert to a textfile with N by M dimensions of the grid and the plotted points matlab

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Main file
This should be the main script.
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Mouse_Click.m
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You will get something like:
Corresponding to this Grid_Matrix:
4,0,3,0,2
0,1,0,0,0
3,0,1,0,4
2,0,2,1,0
0,0,3,0,0
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