Existing Subplot Figure Adjustment

I'm in the process of creating roughly 100 figures,

After creation they look like the figure NT_0D as it is easier for me to include the contour values.

However, for saving the figures as Images, I want to be able to adjust the figure such that looks like N1_0D.

As it looks much better, but I dont know how to write the code to adjust existing figure plots that such that I can do so without individually adjusting each figure by hand.

Any help would be greatly appreaciated.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Create new axes to match a template

You could treat N1_0D.fig as a template by opening the figure, clearing all of the axes and filling them with new data.

% Name template figure (the ideal figure)
templateFig = 'N1_0D.fig'; 

% Open the template figure 
templateHand = open(templateFig);

% Get all axis handles
axHand = findall(templateHand, 'Type', 'axes');

% Clear all axes
arrayfun(@cla,axHand)

% plot your new data; the axes order will always be the same
% "right" titled plot
contourf(axHand(1), . . .)
% "front" titled plot
contourf(axHand(2), . . .)
% "left" titled plot
contourf(axHand(3), . . .)
% "back" titled plot
contourf(axHand(4), . . .)

Alter existing axes to match a template

% Name template figure (the ideal figure)
templateFig = 'N1_0D.fig'; 
% Open the template figure 
templateHand = open(templateFig);
% Get all axis handles
axHand = findall(templateHand, 'Type', 'axes');
% Get all colorbar handles
cbHand = findall(templateHand, 'Type', 'ColorBar');

% get axis positions
axPos = get(axHand,'Position'); 
% Get colorbar positions
cbPos = get(cbHand,'Position'); 

% Open the target figure 
targetFig = 'NT_0D.fig'; 
targetHand = open(targetFig);
% Set the figure to match the template figure size (optional)
targetHand.Position = templateHand.Position; 
% Get all axis handles
targAxHand = findall(targetHand, 'Type', 'axes');
% Get all colorpar handles
targcbHand = findall(targetHand, 'Type', 'ColorBar');

% Assuming the axes are in the same order*, 
set(targAxHand, {'Position'}, axPos)
% Assuming the colorbars are in the same order*, 
set(targcbHand, {'Position'}, cbPos)

% * If the axes are not in the same order you'll need to use the 
% axis titles to match the correct axes. To get a list of axis
% titles: arrayfun(@(h)h.Title.String,axHand,'UniformOutput',false)

[Imran Joseph]

Thanks for getting back to me,

Damn, so the most likely solution is that I would have to redo all my data plotting, rather than being able to adjust NT_0D to the template.

Or would I be able to do something like

%% Name template figure (the ideal figure)
templateFig = 'N1_0D.fig'; 
% Name target fig
trgtFig = 'NT_0D.fig';
%% Open the template figure 
templateHand = open(templateFig);
% Get all axis positions template
axHand = findall(templateHand, 'Type', 'axes', 'Positions', 'OuterPosition');
% Open target figure
trgtHand = open(trgtFig);
%Adjust Position on target file to match template
    %some code

[Adam Danz]

I updated my answer with a method of altering your existing figures to match the axes and colorbar positions of the template figure. You'll just need to list all figure names in a cell array and run them through the code in a loop.