Question

I draw a figure relating two y-axis (i.e. two different S.I. scale) to a single x-axis. I have to zoom on some value and I manage it with the zoom_inset_locator trick from Matplotlib. I achieve the zoom axes but I am missing the second y-axis (see example below):

It did try to add a second axis using twinx() again, but it failed as it plot the axis on the main twinx (right) axis but leave blank ticks on the zoom right axis and seems to give the x-axis the right treatment, see below:

Is there any workaround? Here is the code I used to draw the figure:

import numpy,os,sys
import pylab
import scipy.optimize
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import zoomed_inset_axes
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import mark_inset

# Initializing the curve
fig_cal=pylab.figure()
host_weight = fig_cal.add_subplot(111)
host_mass = host_weight.twinx()
Tension = numpy.linspace(0,0.08,100)
Weight = 0.5* Tension
Mass = Weight/9.81

# Plotting the curve

host_weight.plot(Tension, Weight, 'r', label='Fitted line',lw=2)
host_mass.plot(Tension, Mass)

# Cosmetic on the Figure
host_weight.set_xlabel("Tension U [$V$]")
host_weight.set_ylabel("Weight F [$N$]")
host_mass.set_ylabel("Mass M [$kg$]")
host_mass.set_ylim(host_weight.axis()[-2]/9.81, host_weight.axis()[-1]/9.81)
host_weight.grid(False)

# Zoom on the first measurement
zoom_weight = zoomed_inset_axes(host_weight, zoom = 7.5, bbox_to_anchor=(0.95,0.5), bbox_transform=host_weight.transAxes)
zoom_weight.plot(Tension[:4], Weight[:4], 'r', lw=2)
zoom_weight.set_xticks(zoom_weight.xaxis.get_majorticklocs()[::2])
zoom_weight.set_yticks(zoom_weight.yaxis.get_majorticklocs()[::2])
# zoom_mass = zoom_weight.twinx()

# zoom_mass.plot(Tension[:4], Mass[:4],alpha=0)
# zoom_mass.set_ylim(zoom_weight.axis()[-2]/9.81,zoom_weight.axis()[-1]/9.81)
mark_inset(host_weight, zoom_weight, loc1=2, loc2=4, fc="none", ec="0.5")

pylab.show()

Answer 1

So I found the answer to my question… Sorry for the delay, but I put this issue on hold… I did find the bug but just a workaround by generating an another zoom inset, using the alpha canal and disabling a lot of stuff…

Here is my code:

import numpy,os,sys
import pylab
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import zoomed_inset_axes
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import mark_inset

# Initializing the curve
fig_cal=pylab.figure()
host_weight = fig_cal.add_subplot(111)
host_mass = host_weight.twinx()
Tension = numpy.linspace(0,0.08,100)
Weight = 0.5* Tension
Mass = Weight/9.81

# Plotting the curve
host_weight.plot(Tension, Weight, 'r', label='Fitted line',lw=2)
host_mass.plot(Tension, Mass, alpha=0)

# Cosmetic on the Figure
host_weight.set_xlabel("Tension U [$V$]")
host_weight.set_ylabel("Weight F [$N$]")
host_mass.set_ylabel("Mass M [$kg$]")
host_mass.set_ylim(host_weight.axis()[-2]/9.81, host_weight.axis()[-1]/9.81)
host_weight.grid(False)

# Zoom on the first measurement
zoom_weight = zoomed_inset_axes(host_weight, zoom = 7.5, bbox_to_anchor=(0.95,0.5), bbox_transform=host_weight.transAxes)
zoom_weight.plot(Tension[:4], Weight[:4], 'r', lw=2)
zoom_weight.set_xticks(zoom_weight.xaxis.get_majorticklocs()[::2])
zoom_weight.set_yticks(zoom_weight.yaxis.get_majorticklocs()[::2])
zoom_mass = zoomed_inset_axes(host_mass, zoom = 7.5, bbox_to_anchor=(0.95,0.5),     bbox_transform=host_mass.transAxes)
zoom_mass.xaxis.set_visible(False)
zoom_mass.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
zoom_mass.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
zoom_mass.patch.set_alpha(00)
zoom_mass.yaxis.tick_right()
zoom_mass.yaxis.set_label_position('right')
zoom_mass.yaxis.set_offset_position('right')
zoom_mass.plot(Tension[:4], Mass[:4],color='w', alpha=0)
zoom_mass.set_ylim(zoom_weight.axis()[-2]/9.81,zoom_weight.axis()[-1]/9.81)

pylab.show()

Maybe not the best way, but it works !!!