MATLAB: How to make grid lines visible while Axis is invisible

Question

Hi, I am developing a GUI in which I have two plots, current and voltage (see below). I am using 3 axes, a big one whos X-Axis displays the time, two smaller axes on top of this big axes, I plot current and voltage in these two smaller top axes. The visibility of the smaller axes is set to 0 and only the visibility of their Y-Axis is switched on afterwards. This gives it an impression that both current and voltage are plotted on the bigger axes on which X-Axis serves as time axis. I can do all this, however, I would like to switch on the YGrid of the two smaller axis while keeping the axis itself invisible. I have tried different methods, such as setting the YGrid property to 'on' and using 'grid on' command, but nothing works. Can it be done?

Answer 1

I found the workaround of this problem by chaning the background of the axes to transparent using below code

set(Ax,'Color','none');