MATLAB: How to zoom on multiple axes at once in MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

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I am aware of the function PLOTYY for creating multiple y axes on a figure. However, the ZOOM function only zooms on one axis.

I would like to zoom into two axis at the same time and zoom factor.

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This enhancement has been incorporated in MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b).

To work around this issue in previous MATLAB releases, if you are using MATLAB 7.0 (R14) or later, you can use SUBPLOT instead of PLOTYY with LINKAXES to synchronize the limits of multiple axes. An example code of this method is shown below:

ax(1) = subplot(2,2,1);
plot(rand(1,10)*10,'Parent',ax(1));
ax(2) = subplot(2,2,2);
plot(rand(1,10)*100,'Parent',ax(2));
linkaxes(ax,'x');

For more information, please see the documentation for LINKAXES :

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016b/matlab/ref/linkaxes.html

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There is a slightly elegant way of doing this in R2019b using the 'tiledlayout' function instead of 'subplot':

t = tiledlayout(2,2);
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% Tile 1
nexttile
imagesc(Z)
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% Tile 2
nexttile
contour(X,Y,Z)
ax = gca;
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% Tile 3
nexttile
imagesc(Z)
ax = gca;
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% Tile 4
nexttile
contour(X,Y,Z)
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t.Padding = 'none';
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This bug has been fixed for Release 14 (R14). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

As a possible workaround you can try installing the latest driver for your graphics card, although this is not guaranteed to solve the problem. You can download drivers at your graphics card's vendor's web site.

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