MATLAB: Adding subplots to secondary axis

axesfigureMATLABsubplot

Is it possible to add subplots to a secondary axis in a figure?
 x1 = 1:5;
 x2 = 5:10;
 x3 = 10:15;
 y1 = exp(x1);
 y2 = exp(x2);
 y3 = exp(x3); 
 descr = {'Basic text'
    };
 fig = figure('Name','','units','normalized','pos',[0 0 1 1]);
 ax1 = axes('Position',[0.1 .5 0.5 0.5],'Visible','off'); % axis for the text
 text(.025,0.6,descr)
 ax2 = axes('Position',[.3 .1 .6 .8]); % axis for the big plot
 plot(x1,y1)
 ax3 = axes('Position',[0 0 0.26 0.5]); % axis for the subplots
 subplot(2,1,1)
 plot(x2,y2)
 subplot(2,1,2)
 plot(x3,y3)
Now it just overwrites every command before the subplot line. What am I doing wrong or is this even possible?

Best Answer

subplot() command itself creates an axis. You cannot use it to draw axis on a predefined axis. If you want to create small axis on your predefined position, you should do something like this using axes() instead of subplot
ax3 = axes('Position',[0 0 0.26 0.22]); 
ax4 = axes('Position',[0 0.28 0.26 0.5]);
Related Question