Matlab figure

File Format
Name	Matlab figure
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Scientific Data formats Matlab figure
Extension(s)	.fig
MIME Type(s)	application/x-matlab-data

MATLAB Fig is a format used by Mathworks' Matlab for storing figures. The format is a variation on Matlab's MAT level 5 format.

This is a proprietary, binary format that appears to be fully supported only by Matlab. It is also used by some Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect website.

Identification

Since MATLAB Fig is just a special case of the Level 5 MAT format, these files can be identified by the same pattern, which is the text string MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file which occurs at the start of the file.

Sample files

Fig files on Mathworks fileexchange

See also

• MAT (MATLAB data format)
• MATLAB script file

Links

• FIG files format
• Matlab figures on ScienceDirect
• Online Fig preview tool by Elsevier
• Stack Overflow: Program to open .fig files saved by Matlab