How to change the axes position in matlab

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Chuzymatics Chuzymatics 2014-8-10

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回答： Rob Comer 2024-8-8，23:02

Hi Everybody! I want to be able to relocate my axes/the origin (0, 0) of my plot to the middle of the graphics window. I don't know how to manipulate the set command to do this. There must be a way. Regards

% Code explores advanced graphics properties
clf
x= 0:pi/10:pi;
angle = x.*180/pi;
y = -sind(angle);
h =plot(angle, y)
set(h, 'color', 'red')
set(h, 'marker','s')
set(h, 'LineWidth', 2)
h_axis =gca; % Manipulate theaxis next
set(h_axis, 'LineWidth', 2)

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Chuzymatics Chuzymatics 2014-8-11

Yeah, I want to set the position of the axes object

Chuzymatics Chuzymatics 2014-8-11

axes_translated.jpeg

Please take a look at the attached file to understand what I am talking about. Pay attention to the position of the x and y axes. Thanks

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This question is 10 years old, but it's worth answering given that there have been 78 views in the past 30 days and my answer uses some axes property settings that should become more widely known. Here's a workable way to approach it.

The axis location properties of the Axes object, XAxisLocation and YAxisLocation, can be set to "origin", providing the essentials of what is needed to reproduce the figure that Chuzymatics provided here: axes_translated.jpeg. That figure shows a plot of the sin() function on the interval [0 2*pi], with the x-axis intersecting the y-axis at 0 and the y-axis intersecting the x-axis at pi.

See the script provided below.

Notes

I'm not sure if these location properties could be set to "origin" in 2014 when the question was originally posted, but I've used them recently and found them to be very useful.
In the figure from Chuzymatics (axes_translated.jpeg) the y-axis intersects the x-axis at pi, rather than at 0. There's no way that I know of to set YAxisLocation to a custom numeric value, but my script shows an easy workaround based on shifting x by pi before plotting the sine curve and applying a compensating shift to the TickLabels on the x-axis.
My script sets a few additional properties on the axes rulers (ax.XAxis and ax.YAxis) in order to match the tick directions, minor tick locations, and number of decimal places from the tick labels in axes_translated.jpeg.

%% Evaluate sin() between 0 and 2*pi

u = linspace(0, 2*pi, 91);

y = sin(u);

%% Prepare to place the y-axis such that it intersects the x-axis at pi

% Shift input values (u) and horizontal tick values by the same amount

xAxisLocation = pi;

x = u - xAxisLocation;

uTickValues = [0, pi, 2*pi];

xTickValues = uTickValues - xAxisLocation;

%% Plot sin(u) and set both axis locations to the origin

figure

plot(x,y)

ax = gca;

set(ax, XAxisLocation="origin", YAxisLocation = "origin")

%% Turn off box and give axes and parent figure the same color

box off

set(ax.Parent,"Color",ax.Color)

%% Customize ticks and tick labels on x-axis

xTickLabels = split(sprintf("%.3f ",uTickValues));

xTickLabels(end) = [];

set(ax.XAxis, TickValues=xTickValues, TickLabels=xTickLabels, ...

TickDirection="out", MinorTick="on")

%% Customize ticks and tick labels on y-axis

yLimits = [-1.2, 1.2];

delta = 0.1;

ylim(yLimits + [-1 1]*delta)

yTickValues = linspace(yLimits(1), yLimits(2), 7);

yMinorTickValues = linspace(yLimits(1), yLimits(2), 31);

set(ax.YAxis, TickValues=yTickValues, TickLabelFormat="%.3f", ...

TickDirection="out", MinorTick="on", MinorTickValues=yMinorTickValues)

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Not a settable choice in handle graphics -- x-axis can be "top|bottom" and y is either "left|right" -- "center" isn't a choice. Seems strange a a weakness, granted.

Try the File Exchange to see if somebody has submitted a package with the ability; otherwise one has to make it by drawing the axis manually at the location desired or fake it by using two axes each of half the size to split in the middle, say.

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Chuzymatics - if you are just trying to move the origin (0,0) to the centre of the figure, then you could try the following which just resets the axes limits so that (0,0) is in the centre. From your above code, you have the handle to the current axes

 % handle to the current axes
 h_axis =gca;
 % determine the max absolute value along the x-axis
 maxX = max(abs(get(h_axis,'XLim')));
 % determine the max absolute value along the y-axis
 maxY = max(abs(get(h_axis,'YLim')));
 % now reset the limits for the axes so that (0,0) is in the centre
 axis(h_axis,[-maxX maxX -maxY maxY]);

Or, instead of axis , you can use xlim and ylim.

Try the above and see what happens!

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dpb 2014-8-11

See above...will have to draw the axes in the center or, hopefully, there's a File Exchange submission that does so...

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A similar request was made at move the axes. The code that is attached to the answer is a file called drawaxis.m...though it didn't quite do what I thought it would. I modified it in two places by replacing

 if (myX_Crossing< props.XLim(1)) | (myX_Crossing> props.XLim(2))
        error('Specified X crossing outside axis limits')
        return
 end

with

 if (myX_Crossing< props.YLim(1)) || (myX_Crossing> props.YLim(2))
        error('Specified X crossing outside y-axis limits')
 end

and replacing

 if (myY_Crossing< props.YLim(1)) | (myY_Crossing> props.YLim(2))
        error('Specified Y crossing outside axis limits')
        return
 end

with

 if (myY_Crossing< props.XLim(1)) || (myY_Crossing> props.XLim(2))
        error('Specified Y crossing outside x-axis limits')
 end

To use, just do as follows

 % plot the function
 x=0:0.0001:2*pi;
 y=sin(x);
 plot(x,y);
 % move the axes so that the y-axis is located at pi along the
 % x-axis, and the x-axis is located at 0 along the y-axis
 drawaxis(gca, 'y', pi)
 drawaxis(gca, 'x', 0)

Note that moving the graphic after that may cause the axes to become disrupted.

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dpb 2014-8-11

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A start...still, check File Exchange; may already be done for you...

>> x=linspace(0,2*pi,100); y=sin(x);
>> plot(x,y)
>> set(gca,'visible','off')
>> line([0 2*pi],[0 0],'color','k')
>> line([pi pi],[-1.2 1.2],'color','k')
>> xlim([0 2*pi]), ylim([-1.2 1.2])
>> text([0:pi:2*pi],-0.1*ones(1,3),num2str([0:pi:2*pi].','%0.3f'), ...
      'horizontal','center','vertical','top','fontsize',8)