How can I make my plot fill the entire figure window?

Everytime I plot on matlab, instead of the plot taking up the normal amount of space on the figure window, it does this:

How can I reset this?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Please post your code. We can see some parts of if in the screenshot, but posting a minimal working example, which reproduces the problem is much more useful.

Can you confirm that this does not create the wanted output:

figure;
axes('Units', 'normalized', 'Position', [0 0 1 1]);
plot(1:10, rand(10, 10))

?

[Devin Cortes]

My code simply tests a plot:

x = [1:5];

y = [1:5];

plot(x,y)

I attempted that and it does not give the desired output, the plot is still only in the top left corner of te figure window.

Answer 2

[Ba Mo]

same problem here

i still can't solve it, but i think a key to any solution is adjusting the axes position and size, according to the TightInset property.

you can NOT change this tightinset property, you can only measure it. it reports to you the size of empty space in each direction. this is good because title, axes labels and legends are considered useful information.

[Ba Mo]

as i expected, TighInset property has to do with it. In fact, Matlab help documentation has the solution. the help page is titled: Save Plot with Minimal White Space

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/save-figure-with-minimal-white-space.html

i hope this does it for you

[Jan]

@Ba Mo: I do not see how this page answers the original question. The OP Devin Cortes seemed to struggle with the default positions of axes. I guess, that he has redefined the 'DefaultAxesPosition' or 'FactoryAxesPosition' property of the root object, maybe in the startup.m, a modified matlabrc.m or in a software he is running. (Maybe the property is called 'DefaultFigureAxesPosition' or similar). The details have not been provided yet.

Answer 3

[madhan ravi]

Perhaps https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/295974-how-can-i-make-the-plot-fill-the-entire-plotting-window#answer_228820 ?

[Devin Cortes]

I attempted this, and the plot still only appears in top left corner of figure window

[madhan ravi]

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