Label outside of the box in a figure

Using MATLAB R2017b. Starting with a figure containing an x-y plot, I added a second set of axes using...

ax1=gca;
ax1_pos = ax1.Position; % position of first axes
ax2 = axes('Position',ax1_pos,...
    'XAxisLocation','top',...
       'Color','none');

I changed the second x-axis limits, then added a label..

xlim([0.1 1.1]);
xlabel('Outer diameter, in');

The xlabel command added the label outside of the box in the figure.

I attempted to change both the 'OuterPosition' and 'InnerPosition' properties of the figure, independently, which resized the figure as expected, but the upper x-axis label still was out of the figure box regardless.

If I expand the figure window to full screen, the upper x-axis label is still not completely inside the box.

Can anyone explain how to fix this?

Thank you.

[Paul Bonnefis]

Hi,

I had the same problem and I found a solution. You can change the plot area inside the figure :

ax1=gca
ax1_old_pos=ax1.Position; % [ax ay bx by] 2 diagonal points defining the graph area
Yscale=0.9;
ax1.Position=[ax1_old_pos(1) ax1_old_pos(2) ax1_old_pos(3) ax1_old_pos(4)*Yscale];

Cheers,

Paul

[Camille CAISSO]

Hi,

While making figures for my PhD Thesis I have done 2 differents codes for exactly the same kind of figures than you (with latex interpreter). The first one work's well, everything was fine. With the second one I have the same problem than you. So i decided to copare them and i found the command to solve it.

After all your subplots you just have to had the following command line :

set(gca,'TickLabelInterpreter','latex');

Yes, the problem comes from ticks size...

Currently working on Matlab R2020a.

Cheers,

Camille

Answer 1

[Bhavanithya Thiraviaraja]

You can use the property Editor to change/manage the position and font size of the axes. Click Edit, then Axes Properties. In the window which appears, you can click on the upper x axis Label and drag it down, or even reduce it's font size so it stays within the window.

After all the editings are done, if you want a MATLAB code for it, click File from the menu and then Generate code.

The code I tried generating is like below,

function createfigure1
%CREATEFIGURE1

%  Auto-generated by MATLAB on 17-Apr-2018 12:32:53

% Create figure
figure1 = figure;

% Create axes
axes('Parent',figure1);

% Create xlabel
xlabel('Outer diameter, mm');

% Create axes
axes1 = axes('Parent',figure1);

% Create xlabel
xlabel('Outer diameter, in');

% Create ylabel
ylabel('Transformation Shear Strain (%)');

% Set the remaining axes properties
set(axes1,'Color','none','XAxisLocation','top');

Hope this helps!

[Darrell Gaydosh]

Thank you for the effort, but this does not help me. If I grab the x-axis label at the top and move it down, the plot box does not move, and the x-axis label just ends up superimposed on the plot. Also, I do need to maintain the font size.