# Set "0 degree" location in Polar plot?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-0-degree-location-in-polar-plot/96947
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-0-degree-location-in-polar-plot/96947 "2023-04-01T13:35:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-0-degree-location-in-polar-plot/96947/1 "2023-04-01T13:35:16Z")
Hello!
In Matlab one can very easily do:
Which basically rotates your plot, so that in this case the Theta Zero Location is at the top. How would I do the same thing in Julia?
Kind regards
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-0-degree-location-in-polar-plot/96947/2 "2023-04-01T13:56:48Z")
Linking related threads [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/polar-plot-with-0-at-the-nadir/92119) and [there](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/radar-plot-in-plots-jl-or-makie-jl/88576).
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### Author:  [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/set-0-degree-location-in-polar-plot/96947/3 "2023-04-03T17:54:16Z")
Thank you for this. A better solution exists now, see:
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> \*\*Enhancement request\*\*
>
> I recently tried using GR via Plots.jl to produce a p…olar plot of luminaire photometry. I was quite surprised to discover that there no way to change the polar coordinates used by GR. No matter what I did, 𝜃 = 0° was always at the right of the chart and type C photometry is usually presented with 𝜃 = 0° at the bottom.
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> So this is a request for the ability to rotate the axis of the polar graph.
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> Dan, over on the Julia Discourse board, \[provided\](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/polar-plot-with-0-at-the-nadir/92119/4?u=rmfritz) a Julia function which made it work, and so I have graphs to present, showing what is currently supported and what I actually wanted.
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> What I could get from unmodified GR:
> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/276178/209601648-8bf08add-14eb-468a-8635-82e51886cad7.png)
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> What I wanted:
> !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/276178/209601436-4fc361cf-1487-4d93-b79e-52c8cd0d6dd3.png)
```julia
using GR
angles = LinRange(0, 2pi, 40)
radii = LinRange(0, 2, 40)
polar(angles, radii, theta_zero_location="S", theta_direction=-1)
```
