Subplots with equal "nice" y-axes -- is there a function?
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Hello,
I thought I had seen a function somewhere that would modify subplots so that each of the plots would have the same scale (i.e., ylim) and all of them fit nicely. Kind of like "auto" for the subplot with the highest amplitude applied to all of the subplots.
Is there such a function, or option for an existing function?
Thanks
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Tom
on 13 Mar 2012
Once you've finished creating all the subplots (and you have the handles), you can set all of them at once by using :
set(AX_handles,'YLim',[A B])
Where AX_handles is a vector of axes handles, one for each subplot- for example:
for n=1:10
AX(n) = subplot(5,2,n)
end
A and B are your lower and upper limits. Finding the overall max will vary a bit depending on how your data is structed but it shouldn't be too hard.
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Jan
on 13 Mar 2012
allYLim = get(AxesHandle, {'YLim'});
allYLim = cat(2, allYLim{:});
set(AxesHandle, 'YLim', [min(allYLim), max(allYLim)]);
The curly braces around 'YLim' in the get command are needed, if AxesHandle is a scalar.
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Brett Davenport
on 8 Apr 2018
Edited: Brett Davenport
on 8 Apr 2018
subplot(1,2,1);plot(t,x);
y1=ylim %gets current limits
subplot(1,2,2);plot(t2,x2);
ylim(y1) %sets limits to that of first subplot
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Jorge MARTINEZ
on 16 Sep 2016
what about "linkaxes" function?
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David Bennetts
on 7 Jun 2020
Worked perfectly for me too. I had to add it add the end of the script after all of the subplot calls.
Jorge MARTINEZ
on 16 Sep 2016
anyways, Jan, your solution works like a charm... as usual ;)
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