subplot of already saved figures

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Iyk
Iyk on 21 Aug 2013
i have somany figures like dyke_tap, dyke_tbp,dyke_tcp and dyke_tdp...... they aare all bar plots and i want to have them side by side in other to compare them. i have seen ways of merging them, but that wont be good for what i want so i want to use a subplot. how can i use a subplot on already saved figures..... example ' having 'dyke_tap, dyke_tbp,dyke_tcp and dyke_tdp' side by side
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David Sanchez
David Sanchez on 21 Aug 2013
what is the images extension? .fig? .png?
Iyk
Iyk on 21 Aug 2013
Edited: Iyk on 21 Aug 2013
.fig

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laurie
laurie on 21 Aug 2013
Here is a small bit of code that does just that for two saved figures. The figures need to be saved in the .fig format with this code (hgload only takes .fig figures as inputs), but there might be some way to adapt this code to make it work for other formats.
% Load saved figures
c=hgload('MyFirstFigure.fig');
k=hgload('MySecondFigure.fig');
% Prepare subplots
figure
h(1)=subplot(1,2,1);
h(2)=subplot(1,2,2);
% Paste figures on the subplots
copyobj(allchild(get(c,'CurrentAxes')),h(1));
copyobj(allchild(get(k,'CurrentAxes')),h(2));
% Add legends
l(1)=legend(h(1),'LegendForFirstFigure')
l(2)=legend(h(2),'LegendForSecondFigure')
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Yunyu Hu
Yunyu Hu on 5 May 2020
This method works. But it does not copy the legend to the subplot

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Farhad Sedaghati
Farhad Sedaghati on 22 Jun 2015
Edited: Farhad Sedaghati on 22 Jun 2015
You can use the following function to insert all the saved fig files next to each other: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/51236-subplot

Jesica Gomez
Jesica Gomez on 20 Feb 2017
Hi, does it work for 3d graphs? I'm trying to use the code but it plots 2D graphs.
Thanks

Tasos Ampelas
Tasos Ampelas on 7 Aug 2018
Hi everyone,
In the @laurie 's first answer code, is there a way to get only the final figure and not every single one that I have loaded to matlab?

Md Modassir Firdaus
Md Modassir Firdaus on 30 Dec 2022
Hi everone,
You can try this code to create single figure having subplots. Here single plot is in subplot becouse it does not saved figure 1. First save the created plot then comment "savefig".
clc;
close all;
clear;
%%
z1=peaks;
z2=z1+randn(size(z1))/5;
figure(1)
surf(z1) %creating first figure
savefig('PeaksFile1.fig') % save the figure once then comment it
%%%%
figure(2)
surf(z2,'FaceColor','r') %creating second figure
savefig('PeaksFile2.fig')% save the figure once then comment it
%% Loading saved above figure
f1=hgload('PeaksFile1.fig');
f2=hgload('PeaksFile2.fig');
%% creating subplot
figure(3)
h(1)=subplot(1,2,1);
view(3)
grid on
h(2)=subplot(1,2,2);
view(3)
grid on
%%
copyobj(allchild(get(f1,'CurrentAxes')),h(1));
copyobj(allchild(get(f2,'CurrentAxes')),h(2));

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