Vertically stacked subplots with x-axis labels only at the bottom

Hi,

I searched and couldn't find the answer to what I am guessing is a simple problem. I need several waveforms in separate subplots, all with the same X limits. The tick marks aren't a problem, but the numbers effectively limit the number of subplots, squeezing the data out!

Is there a simple way to have only one set of x coordinate labels and a label 'time' below that?

'axis off' won't work because it removes the ticks and the background, and I still want them.

Thanks.

Doug Anderson

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

How about just turning off the 'XTick'

for ii = 1:9
  subplot(9,1,ii);
  plot(rand(1,10));
  if ii < 9
      set(gca,'XTick',[]);
  end   
end

[Bill Tubbs]

This is only good if all the plots have exactly the same x limits. I guess I can assume from this that Matlab's plot function doesn't have the sharex=True and sharey feature that Python's matplotlib does.

[Bill Tubbs]

Apparently there is a function called linkaxes(ax,'x') to make sure they are aligned. See here for an example.

Answer 2

[Nike]

Hi Douglas,

Why dont you try turning the XTicks off for all the wavforms except the bottom one or ty using this

 use this in the for loop you use to subplot to delete the numbers in the X axis
%
set(gca,'xtick',[],'ytick',[])

 Use this after th for loop to set the numbers at the bottom of the screen
set(gca,'xtickMode', 'auto')

Hope this helps

Nike

Answer 3

[Thorsten]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/26332-labeledgesubplots