I also tried uistack(axisHandle,'top') , but it seems to be for other things and not applicable to this.
How to prevent plotted contents to spill outside of the axes lines
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set(gca, 'Layer', 'top')
I end up with this:
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/705862/image.png)
Is there a way to completely hide plotted contents that appear beyond the axes?
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Yazan
on 8 Aug 2021
The property SizeData of a scatter plot is related to the area of the marker. So assuming you specify a circular marker, Matlab will plot circles centered at the data with a radius that can be computed from SizeData. So, for each data point, find the radius of the circular marker, compute the edge points locations (horizontal and vertical extensions of the marker), see if they exceeded the axis limits and discard the data point if so. This is unnecessarily complex in my opinion given that you just need to resize the axes to solve the issue.
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DGM
on 8 Aug 2021
Edited: DGM
on 8 Aug 2021
One would think that the 'clipping' property of the axes object would take care of that, but I guess not.
Oof:
I don't know if that's a very practical approach, especially for as many markers as you have. It might be better to just adjust your axes limits a bit instead.
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Alexandra Molcanova
on 4 May 2024
this worked for me:
set(gca,'ClippingStyle','rectangle');
hope it helps :)
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DGM
on 4 May 2024
Interesting.
% some fake data
x = rand(100,1);
y = rand(100,1);
% it doesn't seem to work with scatter() objects
scatter(x,y,500,'filled')
set(gca,'ClippingStyle','rectangle');
grid on
% but it does work when using plot()
figure
plot(x,y,'.','markersize',80)
set(gca,'ClippingStyle','rectangle');
grid on
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