Hold function combining graphs

im trying to plot two graphs, and have used two hold functions, yet it is combining all the plots in one single graph.

Answer 1

[dpb]

Don't use hold on for separate plots, it's specifically to add more to a given figure/axes.

Insert

figure

instead, before each new plotting sequence where you want a new plot.

[Hamza]

i dont seem to understand how figure works. can you help with an example? the docs arent helping either

[dpb]

figure by itself creates a new figure...figure(N) either makes the specific figure current if it already exists or makes a new one of the number/handle if it doesn't.

Not much else to understand -- if you want new plots not to overwrite or to add on to the existing then you use figure first. Each figure starts out empty; you then add what is wanted; axes, plot and their compatriots add a single axes to the figure.

Or, if you want multiple axes in a single figure, then see tiledlayout and nexttile