How to make an inset of matlab figure inside the figure.

In matlab help menu there is an example for making insets for world-map. But I want the inset for a simple graph obtained by solving some differential equations. When I used the same codes in my case, it does not work. I don't know from where to start. Can you provide me the whole program for a simple example.

[Jan]

Please specify more exactly what you want. It does not help that we, that there is any example in any help text. I'm not sure what "insets" are also. Therefore neither providing a complete solution nor an example is possible.

Answer 1

[Kye Taylor]

Maybe try something like

x1 = linspace(0,1);
x2 = linspace(3/4,1);
y1 = sin(2*pi*x1);
y2 = sin(2*pi*x2);

figure(1)

% plot on large axes
plot(x1,y1)

% create smaller axes in top right, and plot on it
axes('Position',[.7 .7 .2 .2])
box on
plot(x2,y2)

Answer 2

[Hamid Radmard Rahmani]

Hi,

how to switch between small and large figures?

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/?term=tag%3A%22always+parent%22

[Image Analyst]

Save the axes handle and use it when you call plot() or other functions. Or you can call axes() with it if you don't want to pass it in to every other function.

x1 = linspace(0,1);
x2 = linspace(3/4,1);
y1 = sin(2*pi*x1);
y2 = sin(2*pi*x2);
figure(1)
% plot on large axes
plot(x1, y1, 'LineWidth', 2)
grid on;
ax1 = gca; % Store handle to axes 1.

% Create smaller axes in top right, and plot on it
% Store handle to axes 2 in ax2.
ax2 = axes('Position',[.7 .7 .2 .2])
box on;
plot(x2, y2, 'b-', 'LineWidth', 2)
grid on;

% Now draw something back on axis 1
hold(ax1, 'on'); % Don't blow away existing curve.
y1b = cos(2*pi*x1/3);
plot(ax1, x1, y1b, 'r-', 'LineWidth', 2);

% Now draw something back on axis 2
hold(ax2, 'on'); % Don't blow away existing curve.
y2b = cos(2*pi*x2/3);
plot(ax2, x2, y2b, 'r-', 'LineWidth', 2);

Also attached is a script to inset a small image into the plot.

[SULIN WANG]

Your code works great.

I have anohter question about your code:

if you firstly comment the code

close all % because there may be other figure.

and run your code one more time, you will see that

the data (x1, y1, x1, y1b) are ploted under the box ax2.

See the screenshot below:

I appreciate your help.

WSL

[Adeel Yousuf]

I think it's mainly bcz "hold off" is not written in the code so it plots in the already opened figure. Try including hold(ax1,'off') & hold(ax2,'off') at the end of code.

Answer 3

[prateek raj gautam]

% Step 1. assign value to plotvariable=?
% Step 2. change range=?

%% plot on plot
clc
clear all
close all
x=1:.1:100
y=x.^-2+sin(x)


%% assign yor variable here
plotvariable=y% i am using y as my plot variable 

plot(plotvariable)
grid on
%% location of subpart on figure
xstart=.6
xend=.8
ystart=.6
yend=.8
axes('position',[xstart ystart xend-xstart yend-ystart ])
box on
%% define range of subpart
range=90:110% here i am using range from 90 to 110
plot(range,plotvariable(1,range))% here i am plotting sub part of same figure. you plot another figure
grid on

Answer 4

[Image Analyst]

See attached inset demos.