Need help in MATLAB tiled layouts (nested)

I'm currently engaged in plotting figures within MATLAB and I'm aiming to create a figure with tiled layouts. I've managed to plot using tiled layout but in one of my use cases, I need to plot a tiled layout within another tiled layout, something like nested tiled layouts.

t=tiledlayout(2,2);
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);
% Tile 1
t1= nexttile(t);
t1=tiledlayout(1,2);
nexttile(t1)
surf(X,Y,Z)
nexttile(t1)
surf(X,Y,Z)
% Tile 2
nexttile(t)
contour(X,Y,Z)
% Tile 3
nexttile(t)
imagesc(Z)
% Tile 4
nexttile(t)
plot3(X,Y,Z)

I have gone through documentation and tried the above code but not working

Any insights or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

[Pavan Sahith]

you can consider referring to this question

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/788939

Answer 1

[Voss]

Something like this?

t=tiledlayout(2,2);
[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);
% Tile 1
t1=tiledlayout(t,1,2);
nexttile(t1)
surf(X,Y,Z)
nexttile(t1)
surf(X,Y,Z)
% Tile 2
nexttile(t)
contour(X,Y,Z)
% Tile 3
nexttile(t)
imagesc(Z)
% Tile 4
nexttile(t)
plot3(X,Y,Z)

[Nooruddin Shaik]

yes , this is what I want for the sample code posted ,but I need to get a clear idea of arranging nested tiled layouts , I have to work on more layers ,I need to learn using the arguments of tiledlayout , like parent as mentioned in the documentation and many more

I think the documentation should be more clearly written.

t1=tiledlayout(t,1,2);

t is the parent in this line of code??

[Voss]

Yes

t1=tiledlayout(t,1,2);

creates a tiledlayout t1 of size 1x2 in the 2x2 tiledlayout t. t is the parent of t1.

Here is another example, with more layers of nesting:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);

figure

t = tiledlayout(2,2);

% Tile 1
t1 = tiledlayout(t,1,2);
t1.Layout.Tile = 1;

nexttile(t1);
surf(X,Y,Z)

t12 = tiledlayout(t1,2,1);
t12.Layout.Tile = 2;

nexttile(t12);
surf(X,Y,Z)

nexttile(t12);
plot3(X,Y,Z)

% Tile 2
t2 = tiledlayout(t,3,1);
t2.Layout.Tile = 2;

nexttile(t2)
contour(X,Y,Z)

nexttile(t2)
contourf(X,Y,Z)

nexttile(t2)
plot3(X,Y,Z)

% Tile 3
t3 = tiledlayout(t,1,3);
t3.Layout.Tile = 3;

nexttile(t3)
imagesc(X)

nexttile(t3)
imagesc(Y)

nexttile(t3)
imagesc(Z)

% Tile 4
nexttile(t)
plot3(X,Y,Z)

Answer 2

[Matt J]

If you download nestedLayouts,

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/161736-grids-of-tiled-chart-layouts?s_tid=srchtitle

you can do it as follows:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks(20);

ax=nestedLayouts([2,2],[1,2]);

for i=[3,5,7]
   ax(i).Layout.TileSpan=[1,2];
   delete(ax(i+1));
end

surf(ax(1),X,Y,Z)
surf(ax(2),X,Y,Z)
contour(ax(3),X,Y,Z)
imagesc(ax(5),Z)
plot3(ax(7), X,Y,Z)

[Nooruddin Shaik]

Thanks for the answer , but is fileexchange safe ??

[Matt J]

Well, I posted that particular file. So, yes, it is safe.