MATLAB: How to limit zoom to one of the axes of one plot on a figure containing multiple plots

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I have a GUIDE-generated figure with two axes. Zooming works well, but I want to limit the zooming to only one of the two axes (subplots), enabling zooming for one of the axes while disabling it for the other axes.

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It is possible to selectively enable or disable zooming for axes using the Zoom Mode Utility Functions.

The setAllowAxesZoom function can be used for this purpose.

For example, the following code generates plots with two axes and enables the zoom only for the first one.

ax1 = subplot(2,1,1);
plot(1:10);
h = zoom;
ax2 = subplot(2,1,2);
plot(rand(3));
setAllowAxesZoom(h,ax2,false);

To learn more about the Zoom Mode Utility Functions, please refer to the documentation page for the ZOOM function. To access the documentation, execute the following at the MATLAB command prompt.

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You can enable rotation only in the specific axes by executing the following line:

rotate3d(axes_handle)

For example, if you had two axes as subplots in one figure, you could enable rotation in only the second one with:

figure;
ax1 = subplot(1,2,1)
plot(...)
ax2 = subplot(1,2,2)
plot(...)
rotate3d(ax2);

See the documentation for rotate3d for details.

As for your question about a new figure opening by itself, can you please show us your code where this happens?

MATLAB: Plot two figures in one figure

It is not straightforward but it is definitely possible:

d1 = rand(10,1);                            % Create Data

d2 = rand(20,1)+1;                          % Create Data
figure(1)
plot(d1)                                    % First Plot
ax1 = gca;
figure(2)
plot(d2)                                    % Second Plot
ax2 = gca;
f3 = figure(3);                             % Copy Axes To Subplots
ax1_copy = copyobj(ax1,f3);
subplot(2,1,1,ax1_copy)
ax2_copy = copyobj(ax2,f3);
subplot(2,1,2,ax2_copy)

Run this to see that it works, then make the appropriate changes to your code to plot both histograms in the subplots.

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