Openfig+hold on

I want to open saved .fig files and hold on the same plot. But it always open on a new figure and ignores the hold on function.

Below is code Im using-

for i=1:length(percent)    
    figaddress   = strcat(num2str(percent(i)),'_percent\Pushover_LS.fig');
    P_fig(i)= openfig(figaddress,'visible'); 
    hold on
    grid off
end

Answer 1

[Devang Bipinchandra Lad]

Just found the solution of opening figure and then plotting on the same plot

1. first open the figure using hgload
2. Copyobj is used to paste on a newly defined subplot with the same axis property

for i=1:length(percent)    
    figaddress   = strcat(num2str(percent(i)),'_percent\Pushover_LS.fig');
    P_fig(i)= hgload(figaddress);   % open figure but make sure you don't close them
end

figure()
h=subplot(1,1,1);               %define subplot of 1x1
for i=1:length(percent) 
    copyobj(allchild(get(P_fig(i),'CurrentAxes')),h)        %copyobj of each figure on h subplot
end
title('Curve')

Answer 2

[DGM]

openfig opens figures

hold toggles properties of axes

It doesn't make sense to try to put a figure inside an axes. Perhaps you meant to use the 'reuse' option for openfig() instead?

[Walter Roberson]

You cannot merge figures by using hold. You would need to openfig and locate the axes and copyobj the contents of the axes to the output axes. And somehow you would have to decide what the axes limits and tick positions and tick labels and xlabel and ylabel and colormap should be.

[Devang Bipinchandra Lad]

The axis limits, tick positions, labels and legends are all same. Only the data is different.

[Devang Bipinchandra Lad]

Can I have an example?