A flow arrangement with a fixed number of columns (or rows) greater than 1 is not currently available. A new feature in MATLAB R2023a is the Vertical and Horizontal flow arrangements that allow for 1xn or nx1 flexible flow.
If you're using R2023a or later, you could arrange two tiledlayout objects that each have a nx1 vertical arrangement.
Here's a demo:
% Set up figure
figure()
tclmain = tiledlayout(1,2);
tclLeft = tiledlayout(tclmain,'vertical');
tclLeft.Layout.Tile = 1;
tclRight = tiledlayout(tclmain,'vertical');
tclRight.Layout.Tile = 2;
% create a random number of plots
nPlots = randi(5)+4;
for n = 1:nPlots
% Select right column if n is odd
% otherwise select left column
if mod(n,2)==0
tcl = tclRight;
else
tcl = tclLeft;
end
ax = nexttile(tcl);
plot(ax,fft(eye(randi(10)+1)))
end
drawnow
% Make sure the right column has an equal number of tiles
% as the left column.
if tclRight.GridSize(1) < tclLeft.GridSize(1)
nexttile(tclRight)
end
