Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Plot with a shared y axis with two different x axes oriented in opposite directi

Hi All,
I'm trying to recreate some plots from a old 1970's era report. This is a single plot with an elevation-capacity curve and an elevation-area curve overlaid on top of each other.
The plot needs to have a shared y-axis (elevation). The elevation-capacity curve has an x-axis along the bottom that goes left to right. The elevation-area curve has a x-axis with a different scale that goes right to left along the top.
I've tried using twiny and reversing the second x axis but that ends up reversing both. Any help would be appreciated. I've attached a low res image of one of the original plots for reference.
Thanks,
- dharhas

Hi Darhas,
How did you invert the axis? I find that it works for me to do:
ax.plot(x1,y1)
ax2 = ax.twiny()
ax2.plot(x2,y2)
ax2.invert_xaxis()
Jon
On Wed, 2013年01月30日 at 16:45 +0000, Dharhas Pothina wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to recreate some plots from a old 1970's era report. This
> is a single plot with an elevation-capacity curve and an
> elevation-area curve overlaid on top of each other.
> 
> 
> The plot needs to have a shared y-axis (elevation). The
> elevation-capacity curve has an x-axis along the bottom that goes left
> to right. The elevation-area curve has a x-axis with a different scale
> that goes right to left along the top.
> 
> 
> I've tried using twiny and reversing the second x axis but that ends
> up reversing both. Any help would be appreciated. I've attached a low
> res image of one of the original plots for reference.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> - dharhas
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