Matlab Increase thickness of lines of 3d bars - matlab

I have a 3D bar chart. Let me clarify, I do not want to edit the width of the bar graph as I have already done that. However, there are black lines that outline each bar. Is there a way to make these thicker?
Everything I have search pays reference to the width of the bars themselves, not the black lines enclosing them.

At last, I found the answer to my own question the minute after I ask it.
Simply:
set(j,'LineWidth',1.5)
EDIT: As Luis mentioned, j is the handle such that j = bar3(...)
Sorry should have included that.

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If I have 4 coordinates making a rectangle, how can I color in that area?

I have 4 coordinates assigned to variables, so I would just like to colour in the rectangle that is created from these variables. I tried the fill function, but I cant gather much information from the example.
When I try to use:
fill(bottom left point, top right point,'g')
the figure it makes only shows a line between those points, and doesn't colour in the entire area.
I'm using MATLAB R2019b, if that helps.
Also, if its possible to fill the rectangle with a pattern instead, please let me know aswell.
Thanks in advance

How to remove darkness of a mass of bars in a matlab figure?

I made a diagram which includes 500 bars in a matlab figure. The color of bars are blue but due to the large number, some of them are seen compact and black. I used this code for removing the borders of bars:
g=bar(...)
g.EdgeColor = 'none';
But still the diagram is same whith the dark parts. Can any one help me to make these black bars as blue?
g.EdgeColor = 'none' works on my computer.
It may be a refreshing problem, did you try :
refresh
or an alternative
g.EdgeAlpha = 0
If either of those don't work, please post a minimal working example, because you may have a problem elsewhere in your code.

matlab: bar, how to change the edge color?

I am having trouble to change the bar color, I want it to be white in the middle, and red at the edge. Looking at matlab's description
if I do:
bar(y,'FaceColor','w','EdgeColor','r','LineWidth',1)
It should give me the above. However, when I actually run it, it only give me white graph.
Update: my y is:
y=zeros(1,5000); y(3000)=1; y(4000)=1;
Using the above, I got....
With so many bars, Matlab probably has trouble differentiating edge ('EdgeColor') and fill ('FaceColor') of each. After all, each complete bar is less than a screen pixel.
I suggest you use white edge and colored fill. That works for me. It's as if 'FaceColor' had precedence over 'EdgeColor'.
bar(y,'FaceColor','r','EdgeColor','w','LineWidth',1)
Or better yet: replace each bar by a line, that is, use stem:
stem(y,'r','marker','none')

Stair plot to vertical bar plot in Matlab

I want to create a vertical bar plot. This is my code:
bar (x, sensiv);
title ('Promedio X')
xlabel('Nm')
ylabel('Refl.')
The problem is it looks like a stair plot. I've tried to add (x,sensiv, 'stacked') but it doesn't work. It looks grouped, as you can see in the next image:
graph http://imageshack.us/a/img689/9449/capturawv.jpg
I think it's because of x-axis but I couldn't change it. How can I do it? Does somebody knows how can I do it?
EDIT
Thanks Colin! I've tried to zoom and I understand what you mean and I've tried with different values, as slayton and you said.
I think that maybe it's the way I've code the plot, it is possible?
abc=0;
for p=(61:201)
abc(p)=out1_c;
end
for p=(151:301)
abc(p)=out2_c;
end
for p=(231:380)
abc(p)=out3_c;
end
for p=(381:596)
abc(p)=out4_c;
end
for p=(1152:1531)
abc(p)=out5_c;
end
for p=(1651:2051)
abc(p)=out7_c;
end
for p=(2052:2151)
abc(p)= 0;
end
The default value for the width of the bars in a bar plot is 0.8, so given that you're not currently specifying the width, you should have gaps in between each bar. This is going to sound really obvious, but have you tried zooming in on the bar plot that is created? For some datasets, the bar function will return a plot that looks like a stair plot, but in fact has gaps if you zoom in far enough. If this is the case, then you should be able to get the gaps you want by tinkering with the width parameter as suggested by slayton.
EDIT
Okay. First things first. If you want to post additional information, you should add it to your question, NOT post it as a new answer! You can do this by clicking the edit button just below where your question is on the page. To make things more readable, you might preface your edit with a capitalized bold-face heading "EDIT" as I have done here. If you are able, try now to move the additional information you've given back into your question, and then delete the answer.
Second, I have to be honest, the additional information you posted was somewhat confusing. However, I think I understand what you want now. You want 7 bars coming up to the heights out1_c, out2_c, ..., out7_c (variable names taken from your additional information) with a small gap between each bar, and the x-axis to reflect (approximately) the intervals 450-550, 550-650, etc.
Well, if you want 7 bars, then you want your input to only have seven elements. Set:
y = [out1_c; out2_c; out3_c; out4_c; out5_c; out6_c; out7_c];
y now gives you the heights your bars will come up to on the y-axis. To locate the bars on the x-axis, define a vector x that also has seven elements, where each element gives the midpoint of where you want the bar to be on the x-axis. For example:
x = [100; 200; 300; 400; 500; 600; 700];
Then just use bar(x, y). This should get you started.
A final point on the code you posted, you can actually completely avoid the loops: read up on vectorization. But if you are going to insist on loops, the first and most important rule is to preallocate your vectors/matrices. In your code abc starts out as a scalar (a 1 by 1 matrix), but then for every p, you are adding an element at index p. What is actually happening in the background is for every p, matlab is scrapping the current abc you have in memory, and building it again from scratch with the additional element. As you might expect, this will slow down your code by many orders of magnitude.
You can set the width of the individual bars by passing a value between 0 and 1 to bar. Passing 1 indicates that there should be no space between the bars
bar(x,y,1)
Passing anything less than 1 will reduce the bar sizes and introduce spacing between the individual bars
bar(x,y,.5)

how to make stacked bar graph readable in white and black only

I have a stacked bar graph to include in my paper, which is going to be printed by reviewers in black and white only. When I print it out, I cannot tell the difference between some parts of it, which would otherwise be clearly distinguishable in color. Is there any way to make it readable even in black and white? Thanks in advance.
Have a look at the function presented in this File Exchange Pick of the Week to create hatched patterns instead of (or in addition to) your colors.
Here's one example:
Here's one example of how to use applyhatch_pluscolor:
figure, bar(rand(3,4)
[im_hatch,colorlist] = applyhatch_pluscolor(1,'|-.x',1,[1 0 1 1]);