How to add a second legend-box to a figure without new plots?

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Fabian Binz
Fabian Binz 2018-11-19
评论： Wei Zhao 2024-3-30
Hey everyone, I already looked into the answers of the MATLAB-Community that were given to questions very similar to mine (https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/367161-2-legends-in-1-plot; https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/365006-how-to-create-2-legends-in-one-figure)
I tried these solutions, but they didn't work for me. That's why I am asking for help here.
To describe my problem, here are the facts:
  • I want to plot several functions, some are shown as solid lines and some as dotted lines
  • I added a legend to name these lines by color
  • Now I want to explain what the normal, solid lines are standing for and what the dotted-lines are standing for
  • I want to do this by adding a second legend (in an own "legend-window") to the figure
As far as I know, you can only have one legend-window for one set of axes in MATLAB, so the idea is:
  • add a second (exatly equal) set of axes to the figure
  • make this axes invisible, so you don't see it later in the plot
  • add two "helping - lines", one solid and one dotted
  • make these helping - lines also invisible
  • add a second legend to describe the helping - lines
As you can see in the following code, I made an example of how I tried to find a solution for my problem with simple functions.
It does't work good, because the second set of axes ('secondaxes') is not invisible and the second legend (the one with 'Model' and 'Catalogue' in it) is not black, but grey, because I had to make the helping lines H1 and H2 invisible...
clear all
% First Line to plot:
t = 0:0.5:5;
f = (2*sin(2*60*t));
% "Helping Lines", for example k and r:
p = 0:0.5:5;
k = 2*p + 3;
o = 0:0.5:5;
r = 2*o +3.2;
%%%%%%%%% First plot (L1) and the axes for that plot (firstax) %%%%%%%%
f1 = figure;
firstax = axes (f1, 'FontSize', 16);
hold on
xlim ([0 100]);
xlabel('Current [A]');
ylabel('Voltage [V]');
L1 = plot (f, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 84 159]/255, 'Parent', firstax);
hold off
set(firstax, 'Box', 'off')
legend(firstax, L1, '4 A', 'Location', 'southeast');
%%%%%% axes for the second plot (secondaxes) and the two helping Lines H1 and H2 %%%%%%%%
hold on
secondax = copyobj(firstax, gcf);
delete( get(secondax, 'Children'))
H1 = plot(k, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', secondax, 'Visible', 'off');
H2 = plot(r, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', secondax, 'Visible', 'off');
set(secondax, 'Color', 'none', 'XTick', [], 'YAxisLocation', 'right', 'Box', 'Off')
legend (secondax, [H1 H2], 'Model', 'Catalogue', 'Location', 'northeast');
hold off

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Cris LaPierre
Cris LaPierre 2018-11-21
Do you want to have two different scales on the y axes?
Modifying the placement of holds and labels seemed to fix seeing the double axes. I assume at some point you will be adding real data for H1 and H2 that won't be hidden, so that legend will appear the same. The background color can be changed by adding a Color name-value pair to the legend command.
...
%%%%%%%%% First plot (L1) and the axes for that plot (firstax) %%%%%%%%
f1 = figure;
firstax = axes (f1, 'FontSize', 16);
L1 = plot (f, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 84 159]/255, 'Parent', firstax);
set(firstax, 'Box', 'off','XLim',[0 100]);
legend(firstax, L1, {'4 A'}, 'Location', 'southeast');
%%%%%% axes for the second plot (secondaxes) and the two helping Lines H1 and H2 %%%%%%%%
hold on
secondax = copyobj(firstax, gcf);
delete( get(secondax, 'Children'))
H1 = plot(k, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', secondax, 'Visible', 'off');
H2 = plot(r, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', secondax, 'Visible', 'off');
set(secondax, 'Color', 'none', 'XTick', [], 'YAxisLocation', 'right', 'Box', 'Off')
legend ([H1 H2], {'Model', 'Catalogue'}, 'Location', 'northeast');
hold off
xlabel('Current [A]');
ylabel('Voltage [V]');
2legends.png
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Leone Campos
Leone Campos 2022-11-17
If you want the second legend to be black instead of greyed out, you can plot dummy points and keep them visible:
H1 = plot(NaN, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', Ax(2));
H2 = plot(NaN, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0]/255, 'Parent', Ax(2));
Davide Zamblera
Davide Zamblera 2022-11-24
You can change the legend color by adding the corresponding attribute:
legend ([H1 H2], 'Model', 'Catalogue', 'Location', 'northeast', 'Color',[1 1 1]);

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Hamdullah Livaoglu
Another approach is here; (R2015b)
characterizing multi properties for its legends in the same figure ; (legendTitle function is derived from https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/48331-add-a-title-to-a-legend)
hold on
col = rand(length(hv),3);
for j = 1 : length(hv)
p(j)=plot(sPeriod,hv{j},'Color', col(j,:),'LineWidth',1.2);
p1(j)=plot(sPeriod,hv{j},'Color', col(j,:),'LineWidth',1.2);
end
xlabel('Predominant Periods (s)','FontWeight','bold');
ylabel('Response Spectral Ratios (RHV)','FontWeight','bold');
set(gca, 'XScale', 'log');
set(gca, 'XLim', [0.05 2]);
set(gca, 'XTick', [0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.5 2]);
hold off
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leg1=legend(p,num2str(round(R(ind)')),'Location','NorthEast');set(leg1,'FontSize',9);
ah1=axes('position',get(gca,'position'),'visible','off');
leg2=legend(ah1,p1,magnitude{ind},'Location','NorthWest');set(leg2,'FontSize',9);
legendTitle (leg1, 'R (km)' );
legendTitle (leg2, 'Magnitude' );
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Sedevizo Kielienyu
Sedevizo Kielienyu 2020-7-17
Thank you so much! I have been looking everywhere to display two legends. Your method is the only one that worked for me.

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Anna
Anna 2020-11-4
编辑：Anna 2020-11-4
Here's a minimal working example with more than one line (works on R2017b):
%% define data
% data
x = 0:0.5:5;
y1 = (2*sin(2*60*x));
y2 = (2*cos(2*60*x));
y3 = (2*sin(60*x));
y4 = (2*cos(60*x));
% helper data (as many as different line styles are required)
h1 = 2*x + 3;
h2 = 2*x +3.2;
%% create plot
f1 = figure();
Ax(1) = axes(f1);
xlabel('x data');
ylabel('y data');
hold on
Y1 = plot(x,y1, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 1], 'Parent', Ax(1));
Y2 = plot(x,y2, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [1 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(1));
Y3 = plot(x,y3, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 1], 'Parent', Ax(1));
Y4 = plot(x,y4, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [1 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(1));
% do NOT hold off here!
set(Ax(1), 'Box','off')
% add colour legend
lgd1 = legend(Ax(1), [Y1 Y2],'blue','red', 'Location', 'southeast'); % only select first two data lines, as there's only two different colours
title(lgd1,'Colours') % add legend title
% copy axes
Ax(2) = copyobj(Ax(1),gcf);
delete(get(Ax(2), 'Children') )
% plot helper data, but invisible
hold on
H1 = plot(x,h1, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(2),'Visible', 'off');
H2 = plot(x,h2, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(2),'Visible', 'off');
hold off
% make second axes invisible
set(Ax(2), 'Color', 'none', 'XTick', [], 'YAxisLocation', 'right', 'Box', 'Off', 'Visible', 'off')
% add linestyle legend
lgd2 = legend([H1 H2], 'Linestyle 1', 'Linestyle 2', 'Location', 'northeast');
title(lgd2,'Linestyles') % add legend title
set(lgd2,'color','none')
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Leone Campos
Leone Campos 2022-11-17
Nicely done!
If you want the second legend to be black instead of greyed out, you can plot dummy points and keep them visible:
H1 = plot(NaN,NaN, '-', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(2));
H2 = plot(NaN,NaN, '--', 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', [0 0 0], 'Parent', Ax(2));

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