How to deal with misaligment of y axes across sublots when changing the size of a figure?

Hi all,

I have created a figure (see the figure below, left)

figure 
set(0, "DefaultAxesFontSize",8)
subplot(3,2,[1,2])
plot......
    subplot(3,2,[3,4])
plot......
    subplot(3,2,5)
plot......
    subplot(3,2,6)
plot......

I then change the size of the figure.

picturewidth = 9.7;
hw_ratio = 1;
set (figure(1),'Units','centimeters','Position',[3 3 picturewidth hw_ratio*picturewidth]);

This results in (figure below, on the right):

-misaligment of y axes in subplot (3,2,[3,4]) and (3,2,5) (see red circle)

- last two subplts covering x axis title in subplot above (see red circle)

Can you please advise how to deal with this?

[dpb]

You've changed the default height:width ratio as well as just reducing the size; not surprised that fouls things up.

I suggest if you want a specific size that you set those parameters before drawing on the figure...iow, create and resize the figure first, not last.

[Tomaszzz]

Thanks @dpb. Changing the order, as you suggested, seems not to work either. When I slightly manually increase the width of the figure, the y axes align back again.