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Demo Fixed Size Axes
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.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-horizontal


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      .. image:: /gallery/axes_grid1/images/sphx_glr_demo_fixed_size_axes_001.png
            :scale: 47

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      .. image:: /gallery/axes_grid1/images/sphx_glr_demo_fixed_size_axes_002.png
            :scale: 47





.. code-block:: python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import Divider, LocatableAxes, Size


    def demo_fixed_size_axes():
        fig1 = plt.figure(1, (6, 6))

        # The first items are for padding and the second items are for the axes.
        # sizes are in inch.
        h = [Size.Fixed(1.0), Size.Fixed(4.5)]
        v = [Size.Fixed(0.7), Size.Fixed(5.)]

        divider = Divider(fig1, (0.0, 0.0, 1., 1.), h, v, aspect=False)
        # the width and height of the rectangle is ignored.

        ax = LocatableAxes(fig1, divider.get_position())
        ax.set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=1, ny=1))

        fig1.add_axes(ax)

        ax.plot([1, 2, 3])


    def demo_fixed_pad_axes():
        fig = plt.figure(2, (6, 6))

        # The first & third items are for padding and the second items are for the
        # axes. Sizes are in inches.
        h = [Size.Fixed(1.0), Size.Scaled(1.), Size.Fixed(.2)]
        v = [Size.Fixed(0.7), Size.Scaled(1.), Size.Fixed(.5)]

        divider = Divider(fig, (0.0, 0.0, 1., 1.), h, v, aspect=False)
        # the width and height of the rectangle is ignored.

        ax = LocatableAxes(fig, divider.get_position())
        ax.set_axes_locator(divider.new_locator(nx=1, ny=1))

        fig.add_axes(ax)

        ax.plot([1, 2, 3])


    if __name__ == "__main__":
        demo_fixed_size_axes()
        demo_fixed_pad_axes()

        plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.066 seconds)



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