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Merging two figures
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I have two figures with different plots. I would like to merge them into one figure that contains both plots and with keeping the title of the figure and axis-labels (both figures have the same title and axis-labels). How can I do this in Matlab? I should also add that I am not interested in "do-by-hand" solution.
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Ali Benmabrouk
on 21 Jan 2015
Moved: Dyuman Joshi
on 23 Nov 2023
Hello Friends, I have to merge two matlab figures (please take a look on the images below) in one figure in order to compare contours. How can do that??? Thank you so much.
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Matt Fig
on 24 Mar 2011
As an example,
figure(50)
plot(0:.01:1)
figure(60)
plot((0:.01:1).^2)
Now, do this:
L = findobj(50,'type','line');
copyobj(L,findobj(60,'type','axes'));
If you have different figure numbers, put them in place of the 50 and 60.
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Walter Roberson
on 23 Nov 2023
L = findobj(50,'type','line');
tells MATLAB to look for line objects starting from the object whose numeric handle is 50 .
In the time since @Matt Fig posted in 2011, MATLAB's graphics interface changed so that now the primary interface the user sees is "handles" instead of numbers for objects.
However, the numeric interface is still present and still works -- especially for the case where the number is a figure number.
Matt's example specifically used figure(50) which asks to create figure with numeric handle 50. That syntax is still in common use, especially with figure(1), figure(2), figure(3), and it is still valid. And if you have created a figure with an integer numeric handle in that way, then findobj() is happy to use the figure number as the first parameter, as long as that figure still exists.
Walter Roberson
on 23 Nov 2023
When you use findobj then the 'type' parameter is not case sensitive. The code Matt posted still works exactly as posted
figure(50)
plot(0:.01:1)
figure(60)
plot((0:.01:1).^2)
L = findobj(50,'type','line');
copyobj(L,findobj(60,'type','axes'));
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