29 questions linked to/from Drawing simple 3D cylinders in TikZ
35 views

### Strange scaling issue with circles in tikz/pgfplots [duplicate]

I am suddenly having a strange issue with circles within an axis environment. Any circles drawn inside an axis become weirdly stretched, as in the following example: \documentclass{standalone} \...
51 views

### tikz arithmetic with numbers and lengths

Consider this example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \def\starty{3} \def\length{1}; \coordinate(a1) at (1, \starty); \...
257 views

### How does tikz parse the coordinates surrounded by brackets like (2cm, 1cm)

I have a question about the coordinates in tikz: when I set the style of a node by shift={(1, 1)}, what happens and how are the coordinates parsed into corresponding offset applied to each point of ...
36 views

### What is the relationship between given coordinates, scale, and obtained coordinates?

I have a pgfshape declared as \pgfdeclareshape{Curve1}{ \inheritsavedanchors[from=coordinate] \inheritanchor[from=coordinate]{center} \backgroundpath{ \begin{pgfscope} \pgftransformshift{\centerpoint}...
105 views

### Getting started drawing basic 3D objects with TikZ [closed]

Is it possible to draw this with TikZ (or perhaps a similar package related to postscript, metapost, SVG, etc.)? Sorry, I don't have much to offer this time. I usually like to provide a bunch of code ...
150 views

### TikZ: Define 3D coordinate axes for the space pyramid (tetrahedron)

How can I specify such coordinate axes? So then, e.g. A(0,0,0) or C(a, a, 0). What is the angle between the x and y axes? Yes, I am frankly just wondering. Probably not simply 30 °; it is something ...
95 views

### Why is a tikz node's minimum width not beholden to the x scale?

I'm trying to create kind of a timeline picture where I have a set "width" of 230 and everything renders according to that width. For example, if I say a node has a width of 115 then it should be half ...
63 views

### Making a checkerboard with foreach

Why are these two diagrams different? \documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc,intersections} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \...
145 views

### TikZ: Advantage of position values attached with a unit?

Regarding TikZ-images: When should I type positioning values attached with a unit (e.g. \draw (0cm, 0cm)...) and when should I type them without a unit (e.g. simply \draw (0, 0)...)? Minimum Working ...
467 views

### Coordinates unit in pt although default is cm in TikZ

As we know that in TikZ, if unit is not mentioned in the coordinate in TikZ, it takes cm by default. When I extract the coordinates, I was expecting the unit as cm. But TikZ shows the unit in the ...
60 views

### tikz-3dplot accumulates the transformation every time let operator is used

In follow up to my previous question, I now have the following problem with the tikz-3dplot library. Every time I use the "let" operator, the transformation matrix seems to act again on the coordinate ...
1k views

### Drawing circles on a 3D Plane

I have this steel plate, and I want to put a circle on it so that the circle lies in the "horizontal" plane of the plate: % vim: ft=tex \RequirePackage{luatex85,shellesc} \documentclass[tikz]{...
352 views

### Different dimensions with shift and xshift

I discovered that there is a different default dimension in shift and xshift. Consider the following mwe \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \node (a) at ...