Increasing vertical spacing between subplots

How do i increase the vertical spacing between subplots?

Answer 1

[Blake Johnson]

Here's a trick to add vertical space easily...

The title command lets you add a 2-line title, so if you use this command, it will create a blank line in the title, thus giving you extra space between the top and bottom plot.

title({'';'title of my plot'})

[Çağatay Murat Yılmaz]

It worked, thanks.

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

This is slightly complicated procedure, but not difficult if you have experience with handle graphics properties. It has been the subject of several recent posts here, so I’ll refer you to them:

How do I adjust the position of each axis in a subplot individually in MATLAB?

How do I use suptitle in my subplot The Accepted Answer contributed by Cedric Wannaz is absolutely ingenious!

There are several other posts on this searching Answers with this query.

[hamza hamid]

After all the last subplot write this code a=suptitle(‘The title of all figure’)% a is use to call the your title a.FontSize=10;% for change Fontsize

Answer 3

[Heyang Qin]

You can add an extra empty line to your x label so that the vertical interval between subplots will increase.

For example,

xlabel("your xlabel"+newline+"   ")

[LEONG SING YEW]

This trick is awesome, many thanks!!

[Tim Darrah]

this doesnt work when

xtickangle(deg)

is used.

Why isn't there a simple function to add add vertical space of arbitrary length like there is in latex:

\vspace{.1in}

which adds a .1in space exactly where the command is called. MATLAB and latex seem to be tightly integrated, so not sure why this isn't done. A quick google search of this problem will reveal several "custom" answers and "hacks", but no generalizable solution that "just works".

Answer 4

[dpb]

Shrink the height of the axes POSITION property and, if so desire, then readjust the bottom location to be equidistant if more than two for vertical; width if horizontal

[Joseph Cheng]

For an example of dpb's suggestion I answered a similar question here (where they wanted to decrease the spacing) http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/125319-how-to-plot-something-like-this

x=[60:20:260]; %set x axis ticks
y=rand(11);  %get something to plot
h1=subplot(2,1,2); %setup subplot1
plot(x,y,'-.'); %plot subplot1
box on  %  leave only x and y axes
xlim([60 260])  %setup some x axis 
set(h1,'Xtick',x) %set the x axis ticks to show only x
h1_pos = get(h1,'Position'); %get the position data for sublot1.

y2 = 10*y.^2;  %make something up for subplot2
h2=subplot(2,1,1);  %make subplot2
plot(x,10*y,'-.'); %plot subplot2
box on
set(h2,'Xcolor',[1 1 1]) %make the Y axis line white
set(h2,'Xtick',[])
xlim([60 260])  %setup some x axis 
h2_pos=get(h2,'Position'); 
set(h2,'Position',[h1_pos(1) h1_pos(2)+.1+h1_pos(4) h2_pos(3:end)]) %using position of subplot1 put subplot2next to it.