Place grid on top of patches

Hi everybody,

I want to place a grid (only y-axis) on top of my graph which is covered by patches. The patches are 15% transparent, therefor the grid can already bee seen slightly. However, it would be way better to see the whole grid. Does anyone have an input how to achieve this?

At the moment i call the grid like this:

    set(gca, 'XGrid', 'on', 'YGrid', 'off');

This is the current state of the graph:

Thank you for your input.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

The gridlines can be put on top of the figure, and you can also vary the transparency of the grid lines.

Example —

x = 1:10;
y = rand(2, 10);

figure
subplot(2,1,1)
patch([x fliplr(x)], [y(1,:) fliplr(y(2,:))+1], 'r', 'FaceAlpha', 0.3)
Ax = gca;
Ax.YGrid = 'on';
Ax.GridAlpha = 0.5;

subplot(2,1,2)
patch([x fliplr(x)], [y(1,:) fliplr(y(2,:))+1], 'r', 'FaceAlpha', 0.3)
Ax = gca;
Ax.YGrid = 'on';
Ax.Layer = 'top';
Ax.GridAlpha = 0.5;

See the documentation section on Axis Properties and specifically: Grids for more options.

EDIT —

Added plot image

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[Adam Danz]

@Niccolò Moro, this approach is lighter weight and more flexible than my suggestion to use yline(). For example, if the axis limits change, this solution will draw lines when necessary.

[Niccolò Moro]

@Star Strider

Thank very much, this worked perfectly. Also thank you in general because you already answered 10+ questions of other people that I also had over the course of the thesis.

[Star Strider]

Niccolò Moro —

My pleasure!

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[Ernst Uzhanskii]

Many thanks!

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!