Dear all

am doing a thesis in scheduling of flexible job shop problem by a hybrid meta heuristic. my question is how to make gantt charts with job number displayed in the chart. i understand the graph will be for time, machine and job. but how to emboss job number in the gantt chart? some sayihg it can be done in excel. i have no idea. in matlab i have odne its displaying colors but not numbers. how to achieve it? also how to show the fancy 3d chart shapes like how my method reaches optimal solution in number of iterations.

please someone help. thanks in advance,

attached sample gantt chart and 3d charts