"Manually" adjusting the position of tiles in a tiled layout using Property Inspector

All:

Thank you for reading this. My goal is to adjust the position of tiles in a tiled layout to match a particular layout that I have in mind. Let's say I have the following:

f1 = @(x) x^2;
f2 = @(x) sin(x);
f3 = @(x) tan(x);
x1 = -100;
x2 = 100;

tiledlayout('flow');
nexttile
fplot(f1, [x1 x2]);

nexttile
fplot(f2, [x1 x2]);

nexttile
fplot(f3, [x1 x2])

After running this code (and getting a tiled figure), I then go to the Property Inspector. I see the following:

I then go to the first Axes (or any of tha axes) and see the following:

However, I can't change any of the position parameters.

What should I do? Additionally, is there a "better" way of customizing the tile positions in a tiled layout?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Chris]

If you have something simple in mind, it's likely you can do so without manually adjusting things:

figure('Color',[.8,.8,.8]) % The default figure color I see is white, which can be confusing
tiledlayout(2,4)
nexttile
nexttile(3,[2,2]) % Skip a tile, start on 3
nexttile([1,2]) % Next available, 2 tiles wide

Setting "flow" gives Matlab the go-ahead to reposition things as necessary, so that's definitely not what you want.

If you want complete control, just place the axes directly.

f = figure('Color',[.8,.8,.8]);
ax1 = axes(f,'Units','Normalized','Position',[0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3]);
ax2 = axes(f,'Units','Normalized','Position',[0.7 0.7 0.2 0.2]);

You can view the properties of each graphics object programmatically, without needing Property inspector.

ax1

ax1 = 
  Axes with properties:

             XLim: [0 1]
             YLim: [0 1]
           XScale: 'linear'
           YScale: 'linear'
    GridLineStyle: '-'
         Position: [0.1000 0.1000 0.3000 0.3000]
            Units: 'normalized'

  Show all properties

plot(ax1,1:10)

There are many properties, of which "Position" is present for figures and axes.

ln = ax1.Children

ln = 
  Line with properties:

              Color: [0 0.4470 0.7410]
          LineStyle: '-'
          LineWidth: 0.5000
             Marker: 'none'
         MarkerSize: 6
    MarkerFaceColor: 'none'
              XData: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
              YData: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]

  Show all properties