MATLAB: How to change the size of the axes for individual tiles within ’tiledlayout’

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The 'tiledlayout' environment allows for automatically aligning the indivudual tiles in the layout.

How can I change the size of the axes for individual tiles within 'tiledlayout'?

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Below it is shown a workflow where the size of the axes for individual tiles within 'tiledlayout' is manually adjusted.

% Allocates a layout which will be 6 tiles high and 1 tile wide.
t = tiledlayout(6,1);
% Specifies this axes to take up 3 rows, 1 column.
ax1 = nexttile([3 1]);
ax1.Title.String = 'This spans 1/2 the height of the figure';
ax2 = nexttile([2 1]);
ax2.Title.String = 'This spans 1/3 the height of the figure';
ax3 = nexttile([1 1]);
ax3.Title.String = 'This spans 1/6 the height of the figure';

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Hi Christoph,

set(arrayOfAxes{i}, 'Parent', t); % axes object can not be a child of t(tiledlayout)

Each tile in 'tiledlayout' contains an axes, you can plot directly without creating axes in the layout. Once you plot something, you can use 'nexttile' to plot on the next tile.

In case you want a layout with axes in all the tiles, you can create a grid layout manager, it creates an invisible grid and positions components(like axes) along the rows and columns of the grid.

For more information and examples, refer to the documentation pages tiledlayout, nexttile and uigridlayout

MATLAB: How to have multiple plots in a figure with preset height and compact spacing

In order to have multiple plots with compact spacing and preset height, you can have separate axes objects in the same figure and set their positions as required. Please take a look at the example below which illustrates this. Here, instead of having a tiled chart layout or subplot, two separate axes objects are created and their positions are specified explicitly.

f = figure();
ax1 = axes(f);
ax2 = axes(f);
ax1.Units = 'centimeters';
ax2.Units = 'centimeters';
axHeight = 3;
ax1.Position(4) = axHeight;
ax2.Position(4) = axHeight;
plot(ax2,1:10,1:10);
plot(ax1,1:20,1:20);
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ax2.Position(2) = ax1.Position(2) + ax1.Position(4) + ax1.TightInset(4) + ax2.TightInset(2) + spacing ;

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