Plot within a plot in MATLAB

Question

I am trying to create a smaller plot within a plot in MATLAB, for example like the image of this MATLAB File Exchange Upload. There, two figures are created and then both of them are plotted in one figure.

My problem however is that I already have two MATLAB figures from earlier simulations and I need to embed one figure into the other one, i.e., one would be small and the other plot would be big but in the same graph. Could someone suggest an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

This can be done using the copyobj function. You'll need to copy the Axes object from one figure to the other:

f(1) = openfig('fig1.fig');
f(2) = openfig('fig2.fig');

ax(1) = get(f(1),'CurrentAxes');                % Save first axes handle
ax(2) = copyobj(get(f(2),'CurrentAxes'),f(1));  % Copy axes and save handle

Then you can move and resize both axes as you like, e.g.

set(ax(2),'Position', [0.6, 0.6, 0.2, 0.2]);