how can i make subplots larger without manually stretching them ?

Hi,

how can I make my plot larger (equally without manually doing that)?

like such plot ?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

For figures like this I find it important to remove the xlabel-text except along the bottom row - this saves valuable real-estate that the axes then doesnt have to shrink to accomodate. In order to get this I also find it preferable to have the same x-limits on every subplot column - then it also becomes useful to remove the xticklabels on every axes except the bottom one. The plotting is typically done with the decorations like this:

for i1 = 1:28
  sph(i1) = subplot(7,4,i1)
  plot(x{i1},y{i1},'r.-');
  axis([something suitable])
  % maybe: set(gca,'xtick',[5:8]) % this should be adjusted according too
  % need
  if i1 <= 24
    set(gca,'xticklabel','','tickdir','out') % sometimes worthwhile to increase ticklength too
  else
    set(gca,'tickdir','out')
    xlabel('Distance [cm]') % adjust to needs
  end
end

Then you can further programmatically increase the size of each subplot to squeeze out more space (I often find this too fiddly):

set(sph(1),'position',get(sph(1),'position')+[-0.05 -0.05 0.1 0.1]) % this should be twiddled

HTH

[ADNAN KIRAL]

thanks a lot @Bjorn Gustavsson @Image Analyst

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Happy that it helped.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Use the tiledlayout and nexttile functions to create a configurable tiling of plots. The configuration options include:

• Control over the spacing between the plots and around the edges of the layout
• An option for a shared title at the top of the layout
• Options for shared x- and y-axis labels
• An option to control whether the tiling has a fixed size or variable size that can reflow

For more information, see Combine Multiple Plots.