Adding existing axes objects to a new tiledlayout

I have a cell-array of axes-objects which all have different parents. Now I would like to transfer all those objects to the same tiledlayout. I tried changing their parents one-by-one, but then they all appear in the same tile:

f = figure();
t = tiledlayout(3,3);

for i = 1:9
    set(arrayOfAxes{i}, 'Parent', t);
end

I also tried using nexttile() in the for loop, but this didn't help. Is there a way to specify which tile an axes-object belongs to within tiledlayout?

Appreciate you help very much!

Answer 1

[Reshma Nerella]

Hi Christoph,

set(arrayOfAxes{i}, 'Parent', t); % axes object can not be a child of t(tiledlayout)

Each tile in 'tiledlayout' contains an axes, you can plot directly without creating axes in the layout. Once you plot something, you can use 'nexttile' to plot on the next tile.

In case you want a layout with axes in all the tiles, you can create a grid layout manager, it creates an invisible grid and positions components(like axes) along the rows and columns of the grid.

For more information and examples, refer to the documentation pages tiledlayout, nexttile and uigridlayout

[Christoph Schmidt]

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Karl_469]

In case you end up overlaying all figures in one tile, rather then having a tile for each axis/"figure" use

Eric Sargent's approach:

https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101806-how-can-i-insert-my-matlab-figure-fig-files-into-multiple-subplots#comment_1195904

Answer 2

[Tim Baur]

https://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101806-how-can-i-insert-my-matlab-figure-fig-files-into-multiple-subplots#answer_570729