I am a relative beginner to LaTeX and am currently learning TikZ. For practice, I decided to recreate the tube marking guide provided for Estes model rockets in the instructions (pictured below).
I have reasonably accurately reproduced almost all of it (perhaps not very efficiently, but reproduced, nonetheless). Here is my current code and its output (note that the externally-referenced Estes logo can be found on Google Images):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[letterpaper, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[black, very thick] (0,0) rectangle (5.0625in,1.875in);
\draw[black, very thick, <->] (0.625in,0) -- (0.625in,1.875in);
\draw[black, very thick, <->] (1.875in,0) -- (1.875in,1.875in);
\draw[black, very thick, <->] (3.1875in,0) -- (3.1875in,1.875in);
\draw[black, very thick, <->] (4.45in,0) -- (4.45in,1.875in);
\draw[black, very thick] (0,0.5in) -- (0.25in,0.5in);
\draw[black, very thick] (0,1.375in) -- (0.25in,1.375in);
\draw[black, very thick] (4.8125in,0.5in) -- (5.0625in,0.5in);
\draw[black, very thick] (4.8125in,1.375in) -- (5.0625in,1.375in);
\filldraw[color=black, fill=gray!30, thick] (5.0625in,0) rectangle (5.375in,1.875in);
\filldraw[color=black, fill=white, very thick] (1in,0.25in) -- (1in,1.625in) -- (4.5in,1.4375in) -- (4.5in,0.4375in) -- cycle;
\draw[black, very thick, loosely dashed] (2.5in,0.33in) -- (2.5in,1.545in);
\draw[black, very thick, loosely dashed] (3.6875in,0.394in) -- (3.6875in,1.481in);
\node[rotate=90] (Estes) at (1.23in,0.9375in) {\includegraphics[width=0.17\textwidth]{Images/estes-logo.png}};
\node[rotate=90] at (0.1in,0.9375in) {\footnotesize \textbf{LL}};
\node[rotate=90] at (0.725in,0.2in) {\footnotesize \textbf{FL}};
\node[rotate=90] at (1.975in,0.2in) {\footnotesize \textbf{FL}};
\node[rotate=90] at (3.2875in,0.2in) {\footnotesize \textbf{FL}};
\node[rotate=90] at (4.55in,0.2in) {\footnotesize \textbf{FL}};
\node[rotate=90] at (2.1in,0.9375in) {\huge \textbf{3}};
\node[rotate=90] at (3in,0.9375in) {\huge \textbf{2}};
\node[rotate=90] at (4in,0.9375in) {\huge \textbf{1}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{Big Bertha tube marking guide.}
\label{fig:bigbertha}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
By my estimation, the only thing that I am missing at this point is the stacked, slanted lines in the gray box at the picture's right. How can these lines be created?
I have tried grid
with yslant
, but this did not cut off exactly at the top and bottom and there were remnant vertical lines.
Open to all suggestions, thanks!