MATLAB: Save axes plot as ‘.fig’ in a GUI

Question

I have a GUI in which one an axes is located with a plot and I would like to save this axes as '.fig' file. I have tried with :

[FileName,PathName] = uiputfile;
saveDataName = fullfile(PathName,FileName);
axes(handles.Graph1_axes);
saveas(gca, saveDataName, 'fig');

But this commands save all the GUI interface as '.fig'. Any help will be welcome.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The FIG format contains the complete figure (as the name says already). If you want to save a single axes only and definitely want the FIG format, you can copy the axes to a new figure:

Fig1 = figure;
AxesH = axes;
plot(1:10, rand(10,10));
Fig2 = figure;
copyobj(AxesH, Fig2);
hgsave(Fig2, 'myFigure.fig');