Installing the sfg package

Question

I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, with MiKTeX and TeXstudio. I want to draw signal flow graphs in LaTeX, so I have "installed" the sfg package, along with pstricks and fp (the prerequisites). Unfortunately, when I try to execute a minimal file, I get an undefined control sequence error message. Here's the minimal file:

\documentclass[12pt]{article} 
\usepackage{pstricks,sfg}
\begin{document}

Testing.

\sfgsetunit{0.5cm}  
\sfgsetsize{0.12}{0.4}{0.5}{0.3}  
\sfgsetcompass 
\begin{picture}(27,4) % % branches related to node 2 
\put(6,2){\sfgbranch{3}{0}\S{$\frac{1}{R_1}$}} 
\end{picture}
\end{document}

The command that LaTeX doesn't like is the first uncommented sfgbranch command in the picture environment.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

First make sure that you installed the package correctly - here's a tutorial (I made it for another purpose): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD15rZO_rD8

Important

This is only a partial answer: I couldn't figure it out how to use pdflatex.

First Guess

You are probably using pdflatex in order to compile. This doesn't work out of the box. After reading this question I tried xelatex for example and get the following output:

Alternative

But maybe you want to use a more up to date solution - have a look at the some of the tikz (which is another package - it works with pdflatex without problems) examples here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tag/block-diagrams/