Increase the height (size) of subplots

Supposing the following code:

subplot(5,1,1)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,2)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,3)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,4)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,5)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');

How can I increase the height of each one of the plots?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I see you are using R2019b. In your release, tiledlayout was introduced; people have been happier with that for adjusting spacing.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/tiledlayout.html#mw_2b4c1403-84ee-4a50-b011-3ab6021a7ead

Answer 2

[Chris]

If you have 2019b or newer, you can use a tiledlayout. It doesn't really show here, but there's a difference.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.layout.tiledchartlayout-properties.html

tiledlayout(5,1,'TileSpacing','tight','Padding','tight')
for idx = 1:5
    nexttile
    plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-')
end

With subplots, you could grab the axes and adjust the Position property.

subplot(5,1,3)
ax = gca;
ax.Position(4) = 1.3*ax.Position(4)

You can also change the Position of the figure, to add more height overall

fig = gcf;
fig.Position(4) = 1.5*fig.Position(4)

Answer 3

[Star Strider]

One approach —

figure
subplot(5,1,1)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,2)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,3)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,4)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,5)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');

figure
subplot(5,1,1)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,2)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,3)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,4)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
subplot(5,1,5)
plot(rand(10),rand(10),'-');
pos = get(gcf, 'Position');

pos = 1×4

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set(gcf, 'Position',pos+[0 -500 0 500])

This gets the 'Position' property of the parent figure and stretches the figure vertically, without otherwise altering its position or any of its other properties.

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[Guilherme de Melo]

Hello. Thanks for that example to increase the subplots. Do you know how I can increase the space between them? I have a 1x7 figure (seven subplots) and some of the labels of the y-axis are overlapping. Another problem, its because four of them are color pictures with color bar and the subplots with colorbar keep a horizontal axis extension different of that wihout colorbar. Any help will be greatly appreciated!