# Plot without updating limits

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, makie\
**Created:** [April 28, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157 "2021-04-28T10:11:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157/1 "2021-04-28T10:11:37Z")

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I want to plot a bunch of concentric circles but I don’t want them to update the limits of the axis. The idea is to show radial distance to some specific point. Any way I can do that?

So instead of:

 ![screenshot_2021-04-28_12:09:13](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/f/8f573ec80add3965d1742ca9c446eb2ad948120d.jpeg)  
I’d like to have something similar to (note that the limits of the axes is dictated by the grey lines and scatter markers):  
 ![screenshot_2021-04-28_12:09:13](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/c/eceb402aeb438a6d24751d8d636df6a52eb6f57b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157/2 "2021-04-28T10:14:15Z")

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If you create your axis with `Axis(..., limits = (0, 1, 0, 2))` for example, these limits should not change when you plot. Same with using `ylims!`, `xlims!` or `limits!` after the fact. This behavior changed recently.

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**Author:** ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157/3 "2021-04-28T10:17:15Z")

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But, I love the limits I get from plotting my data. I don’t want to manually specify them.

Maybe there is a way for me to

1. plot my data (without the circles)
2. get the resulting limits
3. plot my circles
4. set the axis limits to the ones I got from step # 2

?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plot-without-updating-limits/60157/4 "2021-04-28T10:32:08Z")

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Ah I see, maybe do `limits!(ax.finallimits[])` after plotting the relevant data