Markers intersect with axis in MATLAB plot

Hello

I am plotting some data with markers, e.g.:

loglog(t55,r55,'ko','markerfacecolor','w','markersize',12);

However this marker intersects with my axis and i can see the border outside the actual plotting area defined by xlim and ylim. Altering markersize and boundaries is no option!

How can I adapt my plot that only the part of the marker in plotting are is seen?

Thanks

[Daniel Shub]

I don't think it can be easily done. See a previous unanswered question of mine where I was trying to figure out the extents of the markers.

Answer 1

[Ben]

nobody?

[Jan]

Please do not bump your question by posting a pseudo-answer. When the readers did not find a solution before, bumping without adding new information, is a waste of time.

Answer 2

[David Sanchez]

Set the axis according to your data, extending the limits to your need:

x= rand(10,1);
y = rand(10,1);
loglog(x,y,'ko','markerfacecolor','w','markersize',12);

ext=1;   % adapt this value to your needs

axis([min(x)-ext max(x)+ext min(y)-ext max(y)+ext])

[Jan]

The OP wrote:

 Altering markersize and boundaries is no option!

Answer 3

[Jan]

Try to clip the axes' children:

AxesH = loglog(t55,r55,'ko','markerfacecolor','w','markersize',12);
Child = get(AxesH, 'Children');
set(Child, 'Clipping', 'on');

But perhaps this matters the center of the markers only, but not if only parts of the circles are outside the axes' limits.

[Ben]

This does not work, actually it does not change anything. Perhaps it is because of what you mentioned: only parts of the cirvles are outside the axes' limits.

[Jan]

This means, that there is no trivial solution. Then explain, why you need this and in which format you ant to export the diagrams.

[Ben]

It's about plotting test results in a clean and nice way for a paper. Plots are exported as .eps files. I can edit them with CorelDRAW. That's not the way I intended to to it, but I guess its less work than fiddeling around with MATLAB.

Answer 4

[Alexander Weitzel]

Reposting from: Showing only part of markers that overflow off the edges of a plot? - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

Even though this question is already quite old, I can present a simple and viable solution for the problem of overflowing markers.

Assuming you are interested in a clean picture for an article or a dissertation, simply set 'ClippingStyle' to 'rectangle' and print the figure to pdf, parts of markers lying outside of axes are now clipped.

set(gca,'ClippingStyle','rectangle');
print(gcf,'foo.pdf','-dpdf','-r300','-bestfit');