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Best Drawing software for engineering/scientific illustrations with Latex?
I will be writing my Master's thesis in Aeronautical Engineering and was wondering about the following:
I will have lots of illustrations such as parts of aircraft, mechanical components, ...
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Chemical process flow sheets TikZ/PGF
I'm working with simulation and control of chemical process-systems and I'm trying to get a grip on how to make nice looking process flow sheets. On the web everybody is referring to Microsoft Visio, ...
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Drawing network protocols
I want to produce network protocols, a very simplified example of which is depicted below:
The protocol has two parties, each of which does some computation and then communicated with the other.
I ...
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How to create geometry tolerance symbols with TikZ?
I am a beginner in LaTeX, trying to use it for an industrial metrology test report, where I need to use geometry tolerances. I have tentatively made a first one with TikZ, but this is hard coded and ...
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Drawing mechanical systems using TikZ
This is a follow-up question to Drawing Mechanical Systems in LaTeX. I have tried to do similar things, i.e. to model simple mechanical systems.
For example:
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Drawing Mechanical Systems in LaTeX
I really like CircuiTikZ for drawing diagrams in my LaTeX documents. However I mostly draw mechanical and not electronic systems, which is why I'm looking for some similar way to draw mechanical ...
