# Makie - Reuse axis / Clear plots
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [March 29, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160 "2021-03-29T11:26:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@nandoconde](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nandoconde)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/1 "2021-03-29T11:26:17Z")
Hello!! Is there a way to clean everything that has been plot into an `Axis` but keepong the axis?
I know of convenient methods to create a new `Axis` within a given fugure, passing a `Dict` with parameters in order to set it up, but I’d like to preserve one that I have already created because it is linked to another axis. Is this possible?
Bonus: I’ve tried to look it up in the docs, but I can’t find it anywhere. If it shows up, could you point me to where it is, so I can have it at hand for future reference? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/2 "2021-03-29T15:24:48Z")
Since right now there’s this
[http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/makielayout/axis.html#Deleting-plots](http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/makielayout/axis.html#Deleting-plots)
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### Author:  [@nandoconde](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nandoconde)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/3 "2021-03-29T17:06:12Z")
Thanks! Maybe it’d be great to have this function documented in the API section, and an example incorporated to the “Layout Tutorial” (maybe even the “Basic Tutorial”?).
Thanks a bunch.
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### Author:  [@mroavi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mroavi)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/4 "2022-04-12T16:24:20Z")
I have the same question and, unfortunately, the link is broken. Could you post the solution?
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### Author:  [@mroavi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mroavi)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/5 "2022-04-12T16:36:42Z")
Found it: [https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/documentation/layoutables/#deleting\_layoutables](https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/documentation/layoutables/#deleting_layoutables)
> To remove layoutables from their layout and the figure or scene, use `delete!(layoutable)`.
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### Author:  [@Kolaru](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Kolaru)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/6 "2023-06-13T16:50:41Z")
It moved yet again:
[https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/axis/index.html#deleting\_plots](https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/blocks/axis/index.html#deleting_plots)
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### Author:  [@bert](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bert)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-reuse-axis-clear-plots/58160/7 "2024-04-02T16:31:56Z")
Now at [Axis · Makie](https://docs.makie.org/stable/reference/blocks/axis/index.html#deleting_plots)