How to delete/remove an extra yaxis (inserted by addaxis function), without removing the line that was created with the addaxis function.

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but i think i have tried everything by now.. I have the following figure, in which the red and blue y-axis were created with the addaxis function (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9016-addaxis). Due to the fact that i have same x- axis -intervals but different y-axis- intervals for the lines ploted (the 2 red lines have the same y intervals, the 2 blue lines have the same, the 2 black have the same) i used the addaxis function in order to be able to create this figure. But there are 2 extra y-axis, the one red and the one blue with no label, that i want gone, but with keeping the corresponding lines to those y-axis. Is there a possible way to do that, or another approach in order to create such a figure? Thank you very much in advance for your time!! Stay safe!!

[Rik]

Can't you rescale the data itself and plot all blue lines in one axis and all red lines in a second axis?

[Vasilis V]

Hello Rik. Thank you for your answer!! That's what i am trying to do yeah but i don't seem to know how.. Do you have any ideas? Thanks again for your time!!!

[Vasilis V]

Rik you were right, i worked like a charm!! Thank you so much for the idea!! Is there a way to accept your comment as an answer, because i couldnt found it. Thanks again!!!! Be safe!!

Answer 1

[dpb]

The two blue and the two red axes have the same scale; there's no point in creating the extra ones; just plot both blue and both red lines when the respective axis is created.

You can do that by using a 2-column Y array for each or by "hold on" before adding the second line for each.

Once you created the axes and added the line; the line is a child of that axes and so if you remove that axes, you remove the line. You could make those two axes invisible so they wouldn't show, of course, but they would still be there and take up room for no purpose.

IOW, instead of removing something, don't create something unwanted/unneeded in the first place.

[Vasilis V]

First of all, thank you very much for your time. I really appreciate it.

I understand what are you saying and you are absolutely right, but look why i still have a problem. I produced the following figure with the use of hold on and hold off, but as you can see the blue dashed and the red dashed lines are both ploted according to the black solid (and dashed) line's interval ([0 to 150]), but what i want is the blue and red dashed lines to be plotted according to the intervals of the blue and red solid lines accordingly (i want the blue lines, both dashed and solid to have the [-2 2] interval, and the red lines the [0 11] interval). Meaning, a plot with 6 lines, and every 2 of them (2 black, 2 red, 2 blue) be created within their interval regarding the Y-axis, not the same (thats why i used the addaxis function). I tried to find a way to use the plot command and inserting an interval as well, but i dont think that this can be done like that.

I hope my problem is clear, and sorry to bother you further. Thank you so much!!

[dpb]

You STILL didn't show the actual code nor provide the data so somebody can easily reproduce the issue or see where your specific sequence of steps went wrong.

If your dashed lines are being plotted on the scaling of the original axis, that means it was the axis with focus at the time you drew them, not the other.

How you did it to have such a result we can't see because you've refused to show us the code or even supply the data so we can do it ourselves...

"HELP US HELP YOU!!!"

[Vasilis V]

You are absolutely right. My bad and i am sorry for that.. I didnt think about it to be honest. I tryied the rescaling idea that Rik commented above and it worked. Is there a way that i can accept both answers due to the fact that you were both very helpfull? Thank you very very much for everything!! Stay safe!!

[dpb]

"I tryied the rescaling idea that Rik commented above..."

That's the kludgy way -- the proper way is to put the plotted lines on their proper axis as illustrated below.

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[dpb]

BTW, if you're still having to do the scaling to make it work, attach the code that creates the axes and adds the plot; almost certainly by looking at the order in which things are created we can tell where you went wrong...and fixing it will also almost certainly be nearly trivial change(s).

Answer 2

[dpb]

I just realized about the three axes, not just two and the use of the FEX submission -- I don't have it and don't want to mess with downloading, but to illustrate how to get the two values at the same scale on the proper axis with the first two using builtin MATLAB abilities --

% make some fake data that crudely approximates...
pos=[0 40 75 80 120 145];
t=linspace(0,30,6);
bp=polyfit(t,pos,2);
th=linespace(0,30,20);
phat=polyval(bp,th);
vel=[11 diff(pos)/5];
bv=polyfit(t,vel,2);
vhat=polyval(bv,th);

% build plot
hAx=axes;                                                           % create the base axes
hLL(1)=plot(t,pos,'k-','LineWidth',2.5);                            % plot the position data
hold on                                                             % add the fitted on
hLL(2)=plot(th,phat,'k--','LineWidth',2.5);                         % top of existing first axes
grid on                                                             % and annotate this one
ylabel('Position (m)')                                              % while we're here and gca
yyaxis right                                                        % add the RH velocity axis
hRL(1)=plot(t,vel,'r-','LineWidth',2.5);                            % and plot the observed speed
hold on                                                             % again, add on top of gca
hRL(2)=plot(th,vhat,'r--','LineWidth',2.5);
ylabel('Speed (m/s)')
hRAx=gca;                                                           % get the gca (RH) axis handle
hRAx.YColor='r';                                                    % to set its color

The above yields

where both red curves are on the RH axes and scaled per its scale. This happened because both were drawn while that axis was the current axis of focus.

I don't know precisely the interface for the addaxis function, but it will do the same -- subsequent plot commands will plot into gca by default so if you plot the observed data in sequence and then try to add the fits, you'll be changing focus and thereby creating the issues you're having.

The fix is one of two possibilities:

1. Add all data to each axis in turn as it is created and remains current as shown above, or
2. Save and use the axis handle as the target axis for the subsequent plot commands so they're added to the intended axis.

Either of those will, as suggested before, solve your problem.

[dpb]

I will agree w/ some of the comments @ FEX that it's mind-boggling that TMW hasn't built the facilities of addaxis into the base product in some 40 years... They're terribly slow at many of the most obvious facilities. :(

[dpb]

I presume you could probably use the above for the first two and then add the third afterwards w/ addaxis -- although I've never used it.

[Vasilis V]

I dont know how to thank you enough my friend. Thank you so much for your help and for your time!! I took the main idea for the rescaling from here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5294955/how-to-scale-down-a-range-of-numbers-with-a-known-min-and-max-value , but you are absolutely right, the proper way is to put the lines to their proper axis. I will try to do that according to your code and your ideas above. Thank you so much for everythig!!!! I really appriciate it, and i hope i would help you as well somehow, someday in something i dont know. Have a nice day man!! Many many greetings!!!!!!

[Vasilis V]

The community here is really really lucky to have people like you!! Thanks for everything. I know your time is very valuable, and thank you for that!!

[dpb]

Glad to try to help...we in general all like to try to teach and the content of questions can add some interesting tidbits of ways to use MATLAB so it's entertainment for us as well... :)

As noted, if you would just post the sequence of commands you used, I'm certain somebody could point out the "why" you get what you are getting in the order in which you did things...remember that unless you specifically direct plot() to add to a given axis by passing the handle, it will plot() on to which ever axis is that returned by gca -- and that changes to be the last one created or can be modified by user intervention. So, the order of operations is important