How to superimpose plots from 2 (.fig) files?

My objective is to superimpose 2 plots from 2 (.fig) files.

One of the (.fig) that 2 plots (say, two.fig). The .fig files came from scopeData. I figured I could live only with .fig. When I tried to superimpose it with the other (.fig) (say one.fig) with only one plot, MATLAB is using the bottom plot two.fig. How can I get the top plot from two.fig to superimpose with one.fig?

Pictures included. (I'm working with (.fig) files, jpegs are just to show what I have)

I tried: x = openfig('one.fig', 'reuse'); ax1 = gca; y = openfig('two.fig','reuse'); ax2 = gca;

h3 = figure;

s1 = subplot(1,1,1);

fig1 = get(ax1, 'children'); fig2 = get(ax2, 'children');

copyobj(fig1,s1); hold on copyobj(fig2,s1); hold off

Answer 1

[Cam Salzberger]

Hello Francis,

You were on the right track, but you only made one subplot. I'm assuming, since you're using subplot, that you want two separate axes on the figure. Here's a quick example of how you can do it with copyobj:

% Setup the figures
hFig1 = figure;
plot(1:10)
hold on
plot(2:20)
hFig2 = figure;
plot(10:-1:1)
hold on
plot(1:10)

% Create new figure and copy over
hFigTarget = figure;
hAxTar1 = subplot(2, 1, 1, 'Parent', hFigTarget);
hAxTar2 = subplot(2, 1, 2, 'Parent', hFigTarget);
hAx1 = hFig1.Children; % Assuming there's just one child
hAx2 = hFig2.Children;
copyobj(hAx1.Children, hAxTar1)
copyobj(hAx2.Children, hAxTar2)

Another way to do it would be to just copy over both axes, and change their 'Position' or 'OuterPosition' properties to simulate what subplot does. I personally find that this works pretty well to simulate subplots:

hAx1.Units = 'normalized';
hAx1.OuterPosition = [0 0.5 1 0.5];
hAx2.Units = 'normalized';
hAx2.OuterPosition = [0 0 1 0.5];

-Cam

[Francis Lopez]

Awesome! This works. Thank you.