set same xlim for all subplots
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Hi all,
i need to specify one "xlim" for my all multiple subplots. I read already answers here but i got some problems about my labels. It disappear. I think; because of "set(gca)" on my codes. I couldn't figure out, how to solve this. If you any idea i really appreciated that. Here my codes of a subplot. Thank you so much!
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Olga Zinovieva
on 14 Jun 2019
Edited: Olga Zinovieva
on 14 Jun 2019
Error using xlim. Wrong number of arguments.
xlim line was basically the same
xlim(hAx,[0 150])
dpb
on 14 Jun 2019
Edited: dpb
on 14 Jun 2019
Hmmm...I would have thought xlim was vectorized earlier than that but apparently not--R2014b is latest I presently have installed prior to R2017b which works and it also fails (not unexpectedly given R2015a did).
Have to use the set alternative then...
set(hAx,'xlim',[0 150])
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Steven Lord
on 29 Jul 2018
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Steven Lord
on 30 Jul 2018
As Adam said, the axes you link don't have to have the same figure as their Parent.
% Make the first axes in its figure
f = figure;
ax = axes('Parent', f);
% Plot some data into the first axes
x = 0:0.1:2*pi;
plot(ax, x, sin(x));
% Make a second axes in a second figure
f2 = figure;
ax2 = axes('Parent', f2);
% Plot some data into the second axes
plot(ax2, x, cos(x));
% Link the x axis of the two axes together
linkaxes([ax, ax2], 'x')
Now move the figures so you can see both of the axes, turn panning on in one of the figures, and pan one of the axes. The other axes will pan so its x axis matches the one in which you're manually panning. Since I only linked the x axis of the two axes, the y axis of the two axes might start to differ both because you're panning manually and probably not panning only horizontally and because the limits of the other axes will default to automatically spanning the data visible in that axes.
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Image Analyst
on 29 Jul 2018
Just get the min and max of all x limits. See this demo:
subplot(2,2,1);
% Plot something...
plot(rand() * 1000 * rand(10,1), rand(10,1));
% Find xLimits for this graph.
xl1 = xlim
subplot(2,2,2);
% Plot something...
plot(rand() * 1000 * rand(10,1), rand(10,1));
% Find xLimits for this graph.
xl2 = xlim
subplot(2,2,3);
% Plot something...
plot(rand() * 1000 * rand(10,1), rand(10,1));
% Find xLimits for this graph.
xl3 = xlim
subplot(2,2,4);
% Plot something...
plot(rand() * 1000 * rand(10,1), rand(10,1));
% Find xLimits for this graph.
xl4 = xlim
% Find leftmost xLeft
xLeft = min([xl1(1), xl2(1), xl3(1), xl4(1)])
% Find rightmost xRight
xRight = max([xl1(2), xl2(2), xl3(2), xl4(2)])
uiwait(msgbox('See it now'));
% Set all to be the same
subplot(2,2,1);
xlim([xLeft, xRight]);
subplot(2,2,2);
xlim([xLeft, xRight]);
subplot(2,2,3);
xlim([xLeft, xRight]);
subplot(2,2,4);
xlim([xLeft, xRight]);
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Image Analyst
on 29 Jul 2018
Did you see how I used the xlim() function? There is help documentation on it if you need more examples. For you, you can do
xlim([0, 50]);
Similarly if you want to set the limits on the range in the y direction.
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