matlab: plot area continues after data ends

Question

I have a simple plot in Matlab but as you can see from the screenshot. There is a lot of white space on the right side of the graph after the end of the data series.

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Any idea how to get rid of this white space and make the plot go right to the edge of the figure? Here is my code:

Plotx = plot(x);
hold on
PlotState = plot(Y);

set(Plotx,'Color','black','LineWidth',2.5);
set(PlotState,'Color','red','LineWidth',2.5);

set(gca, 'XTick',(1:3:62))
labels = time;
set(gca,'XTickLabel',labels(1:3:62))

grid on

This [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5152611/14946) shows how to remove the border on any side. — b3., Sep 10 '13 at 17:43

Thales MG · Answer 1 · 2013-09-10T18:30:06.500

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This usually works for me:

axis tight;
xlim('auto');

You must select your figure, go back to the console and use those commands so they affect the last active figure.

EDIT: The above line should automatically make your graph axis very tight on your data. For more fine control, you may want to define the axis limits manually:

 axis([xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax])

edited Sep 10 '13 at 18:30

answered Sep 10 '13 at 16:52

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '13 at 22:25

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I found a solution. I manually adjust the limit of the x-axis, using:

set(gca,'XLim',[0 63])

edited Sep 10 '13 at 22:25

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 18:25

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