This tag is for questions related to the tikz-3dplot package for enhancing TikZ coordinate system to 3D.
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How to draw a 3d cylinder using TikZ-3dplot?
I'm trying to draw a 3d cylinder using TikZ-3dplot, but the cylinder walls are not aligned properly (as you can see in the image).
Does anybody knows what am I doing wrong?
\documentclass{article}
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How to draw spherical using 3dplot
I would like do draw some sphericals using the package 3dplot. Does anybody know how to draw spericals with different diameter and postition in a coordinate system like that one?
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Projection of Circle onto Spherical Surface
I want to draw shapes looks like 15 degrees tilted-semi-sphere and there are circles, placed in a triangular shaped array, on the base area. Then these circles are projected onto surface of sphere.
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Rotating around axes with tikz-3dplot
I'm a bit confused by the following code. I would think that the following would produce an animation of rotating 90-degrees around the x-, y-, and z-axes, but the first part of the animation looks ...
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Error caused by TikZ/PGF trigonometric functions
I'm a bit confused about a failure I'm seeing with an inline \cos call. In the code below there I perform contortions with \let, \pgfmathparse, and \pgfmathresult However, the commented line should, ...
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tikz-3dplot rotation around the X axis?
I'm trying to create a simple spherical quadrant grid using the tikz-3dplot package. The longitudinal grid lines look fine but when I try to create the latitudinal lines I get really strange results ...
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change the rotation in tikz 3d?
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot}
\begin{document}
\tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{115}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=4,tdplot_main_coords]
\coordinate (O) at (1,1,1);
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Navigation system coordinates in tikz-3dplot
I am using tikz-3dplot and trying to represent navigation system transformations. In navigation systems, the orientation of the vehicle axis is given in terms of Roll, Pitch and Yaw. These are ...
