Merging two figures

I have two figures with different plots. I would like to merge them into one figure that contains both plots and with keeping the title of the figure and axis-labels (both figures have the same title and axis-labels). How can I do this in Matlab? I should also add that I am not interested in "do-by-hand" solution.

[Ali Benmabrouk]

Hello Friends, I have to merge two matlab figures (please take a look on the images below) in one figure in order to compare contours. How can do that??? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

As an example,

figure(50)
plot(0:.01:1)
figure(60)
plot((0:.01:1).^2)

Now, do this:

L = findobj(50,'type','line');
copyobj(L,findobj(60,'type','axes'));

If you have different figure numbers, put them in place of the 50 and 60.

[Walter Roberson]

And afterwards, adjust the axes positions and sizes so that the two plots are not on top of each other.

[Ernest Chan]

Excellent solution: works perfectly!! Thanks!

[Imran Rahman]

What if I have more than 2 figures to merge? Can you please tell me the code for this. Thank you.

[Walter Roberson]

You can use the kind of code I showed in https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/262265-duplicating-an-imshow-image-into-a-new-figure-without-using-imshow#comment_332459, just looping with f1 set to each source figure in turn.

[Lorenzo Mattera]

sorry for the silly question but ..

once one has performed the

L = findobj(50,'type','line');

copyobj(L,findobj(60,'type','axes'));

how do you plot the result (superimposed plots)?

any way to keep colors and legend of the individual (original) figures?

thank you

Renzo

[David Hasin]

Woked great, thanks!

[mohammed]

i got error

Error using findobj

Invalid handle

[Lisette Hernandez Gonzalez]

A little bit late but for future reference, just change line for Line and it should work. At certain point matlab became case sensitive

[Walter Roberson]

L = findobj(50,'type','line');

tells MATLAB to look for line objects starting from the object whose numeric handle is 50 .

In the time since @Matt Fig posted in 2011, MATLAB's graphics interface changed so that now the primary interface the user sees is "handles" instead of numbers for objects.

However, the numeric interface is still present and still works -- especially for the case where the number is a figure number.

Matt's example specifically used figure(50) which asks to create figure with numeric handle 50. That syntax is still in common use, especially with figure(1), figure(2), figure(3), and it is still valid. And if you have created a figure with an integer numeric handle in that way, then findobj() is happy to use the figure number as the first parameter, as long as that figure still exists.

[Walter Roberson]

@Lisette Hernandez Gonzalez

When you use findobj then the 'type' parameter is not case sensitive. The code Matt posted still works exactly as posted

figure(50)
plot(0:.01:1)
figure(60)
plot((0:.01:1).^2)
L = findobj(50,'type','line');
copyobj(L,findobj(60,'type','axes'));

Answer 2

[Chunguo Wu]

I'm also caring about this issue.

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/262265-duplicating-an-imshow-image-into-a-new-figure-without-using-imshow#comment_332459