Questions tagged [coordinates]
{coordinates} is about using coordinates in {diagrams}.
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Overriding the (0,0) Default When Using Pstricks Polar Coordinates
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{pstricks,xcolor,graphicx}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{pspicture}(-5,-5)(5,12)%
\psframe[...
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tikz: draw arc between two specific points
How can I draw between two specific coordinates? Cord are (1,0) and (5,0)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm,top=1cm,headheight=16pt,headsep=0.1in,heightrounded]{geometry}
\usepackage{...
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Changing the default length unit in tikz
Is there a way to change the default length unit in tikz to the ex unit? I have trouble while calculating complicated coordinates in tikz when I'm using the ex unit (I always get an error or a wrong ...
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Using AddToHook instead of background package
Recently I found out that the background package is deprecated and one should use \AddToHook{shipout/background} (comments in Positioning relative to page in XeLaTeX with package background and '...
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Derived \coordinate in TikZ
Why the code not produces the line?
\begin{tikzpicture}
\coordinate (A) at (0,0);
\coordinate (B) at (A)+(1,0);
\draw (A)--(B);
\end{tikzpicture}
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Tikz : Point C at distance k on line AB
I'd like to define the point C on line AB such that AC=k, using the calc library and the let... in... command.
This does not work, why? Is there a unit problem (C seems to be pretty close to A)?
I ...
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Shouldn't these segment specification be equivalent? [duplicate]
According to my understanding of tikz the following two segments, both connecting the origin with the point (-1,0) should be the same.
\draw[green, very thick] (0, 0) -- (-1, 0);
\draw[red, very thick]...
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Transform cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates
I am working with tikz.
I want to draw a line that is rectangular to a certain other line and has a certain length.
The coordinates are defined as cartesian.
What I am searching for is a function to ...
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how to get coordinates of current bounding box.north east
I want to get the coordinates of current bounding box.north east and current bounding box.south west, I tried \the\dimexpr current bounding box.north east , but an error is reported, how can I ...
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save the position information of the tikzpicture bounding box
I learned from this question that each tikzpicture can generate a bounding box. I want to save the position information of the tikzpicture bounding box (such as the upper left corner and width and ...
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How do I define more than 9 points in a tikzset with the let operation?
As shown in the code below \p10 will make an error, preventing long drawings.
How does one overcome this?
I think this is asked here but the answer is unclear for this aplication.
\documentclass{...
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Tikz: matching line positions with relative positioning
I am trying to draw orthogonal lines between certain points in a body of text (an exerpt from the Bible), and am using tikzmark for anchors and relative positioning to form the line shape. I need to ...
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How to find the widest of several nodes with Tikz
I have several nodes and I need to find which one is the widest.
This example draws a vertical line in through the center of the widest node, but I know which node to choose.
\documentclass[12pt,...
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How to make a spiral in coordinate system using Tikz [duplicate]
How do I generate a figure similar to this, but the value of 600° must be 1201°, and the spiral must take 3 revolutions (1201°/360°=3 revolutions).
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How to properly create figures (such as coordinate system) in Tikz in a timely manner?
I am new to LaTex and Tikz Package. I am trying to create figures in Tikz (which was recommended to me in my previous question). This is what I had made after days of tinkering. However, I made this ...
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Pgfplots: plot exponentially halving x values at regular intervals
I want to plot a dataset with pgfplots. In my dataset, 0 < x < 1 and everything interesting happens for values of x close to 1. In particular, the interesting points happen at halving intervals ...
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Tikz: Extract polar coordinate
Is there a (simple) way to extract polar coordinates in Tikz?
Motivation: I define two points (a) and (b) as intersection of a line and a circle (center at the origin) and then I want to an arc ...
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How to add cutting marks aligned with elements on the page?
I am working on a memory card game for my pupils and have set up a grid of 6cm x 6cm cards which looks like this:
Problem is that I am very bad at using this cutting machine and always miss the lines....
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Aligning two coordinate systems in tikz
I am trying to draw Minkowski diagrams using tikz and got as far as below.
How do I align the origins of the two coordinate systems, i.e. how do I move up the B-system? I tried various things with the ...
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Pgfplots: nodes near coords throws "Undefined control sequence" error
I am trying to plot a bar chart using tikz. I am struggling with placing numbers above the bars. I use the "nodes near coords" option but I always get "undefinded control sequence" ...
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drawing objects on grid with empty positions
I would like to regularly space objects over a figure, but have some of the grid positions empty. Method 1 below works, but makes it hard to leave grid positions empty (would need some complicated if ...
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Line code not working [duplicate]
\draw[thick] (pi/4,0)--(pi/4,1); is not working
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{...
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TikZ: Placing a coordinate or node at end of edge
How can I place a node or coordinate at end of the edge?
I expected this syntax:
\draw (0,0) edge +(1,1) coordinate (x);
Because the same syntax with the -- command, it works:
\draw (0,0) -- +(1,1) ...
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On adding a rounded rect node on top of a JPEG at a scaled coordinate position with the scaled inner xsep and ysep
Let us assume that we have a JPEG file of mushrooms given in the following link:
WIKI MUSHROOMS
To make it easier to find the desired points in the JPEG, Let us draw a labeled grid on top of the image ...
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Simplest method for positioning Tikz shape over image in relative coordinates
What concise recipee is there to overlay objects on top of images, using relative coordinates (such as fraction of image width/height)?
For example trying to draw a red rectangle to highlight a ...
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The path connecting a point to a node fails to reach the actual node
This might be a very simple question and may have been asked here. I just don't know what the keywords are if it does. Let me start with an example:
\documentclass[border=10pt,varwidth]{standalone}
\...
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Clipped scope's bounding box
In the following example, I \clip out a 3x3 rectangle of an image. I'd expect the resulting scope to have a bounding box of 3x3, so the two text nodes should line up with the extent of the clipped ...
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Pixel coordinates for TikZ overlays
I would like to create a tikzpicture where a rectangular part is imported from a raster image (let's say a PNG), and there are other TikZ nodes on top of it. The tricky part is that I need to position ...
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\foreach coordinate names in PGFPlots
I have some points defined via
\coordinate (A1) at (-4,0);
\coordinate (B1) at (-2,1);
\coordinate (C1) at (0,0);
...
And I want to place a little dash at their location. I tied two approaches, but ...
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tikz-3dplot : discordance between polar and Cartesian coordinates ? (solved)
Recently I used the package tikz-3dplot to draw a figure until I was confronted to a very strange issue. I finally build a Minimal Working Example to isolate the problem and fully annotated it to ...
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Adjustable (circuit-)tikzpicture as standalone with interchangeable nodes/pathes (in TexStudio)
Im looking for a smooth way to adjust an existing circuitikz as standalone to create closely related outputs with varying content. Like switching through different settings for my scheme.
E.g. the ...
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Negating coordinates
This actually seems like an easy thing to do but I have not found any solution:
I would like to negate/invert predefined coordinates as simple and with few characters as possible. I.e. using (A) as (0,...
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Transform pgfplot coordinates; "axis cs" but for \pic Radii
I am trying to use angle radius in \pic without units, but instead with the axis coordinate system. In a sense the same as axis cs does for coordinates, but just for this radius.
I have looked through ...
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Comma in x coord (interval)
How can I replace the dot with a comma in x coords?
\documentclass[border=10pt, 12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{times}
\...
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Coordinate system confusion of TikZ and PGFPlots [duplicate]
So, I'm drawing graphs using TikZ and pgfplots for my lecture notes. My question is about the two coordinate systems that are used in the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Partition Triangle
I am working on a paper on integer partitions and I want to add something like this. This is not my picture, it is from another paper, but is it possible to do this on LaTex? I want to be able to ...
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How to show the coordinate of certain points on the axes of a graph?
Here is the code I want to extend
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
date coordinates in=x,
xticklabel={\hour:\minute},
xticklabel style =
{rotate=45,anchor=near xticklabel},
xmajorgrids=true,
xmin={...
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TikZ Ellipse and Arc Operations Acting Unexpected
I'm trying to draw the arc of an ellipse which is centered at the origin. I'd like it to start drawing at an initial angle of 45 degrees and end at 90 degrees.
From this question on this site, there ...
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How to define an adaptive grid or coordinate system on an image?
I often need to draw on an image precisely.
For this, I draw two paths on the image and I position the points proportionally on the image.
This solution allows me to change the size of the image ...
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Is there some easy way to place the shape with coordinates?
I'm very to new to the latex so I may asking the stupid question.
I want to place a diagram of a cylinder at a position specified by coordinates.
I wonder that if such below codes exists.
\cylinder (...
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How can one use named coordinates and still do the coordinate transformations (`shift`, `rotate` etc.)?
Consider this MWE:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [help lines, step=1cm] (0,0) grid (4,2);
\coordinate[label={$X$}] (X) at (0,0);
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Reuse of coordinate names in Tikz
Many times I reuse help coordinate names in tikz pictures.
Normally, they are overwritten.
Now I have found an instance where they are maintained.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{...
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Presentation with beamer - How to make graphics and text stick at defined coordintates
I'm new to Latex and right now I'm trying to design my presentation.
However, I don`t know how to be able to be precise about the location of my pictures.
(E.g. in Powerpoint I could just drag them to ...
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Taking coordinates of Test.pos file type not possible!
1. Test.tex
Running Test.tex (see below) saves the coordinates (as pt, not mm or sp) of
\eins{title 1}{some text }
in the file Test.pos, which is:
% this is Test.tex
\documentclass{article}
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Using tikz-calc addition of coordinates along with macros
I am trying to use tikz-calc to automatically calculate coordinates in custom macros, using the coordinate addition function ($ (x,y) + (a,b) $). Things seem to go awry when I try to add coordinates ...
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pstricks rput coordinates and rotation broken
when using pstricks rput, all coordinates are piled up and rotations are piled up and the rotation also doesn't work.
Anchorage and other functionality seems to work.
I'm using Xelatex on an Arch ...
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Multiple ornaments between the corners
I would like to bring in several ornamental elements in the lines between the corners. I'am usigng,
\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style={inner sep=0pt}]
\node[shift={(1.cm,-1cm)},anchor=north west](...
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Defining a coordinate (instead of node) with in a graph tikz
When drawing a tikz graph, can I specify that a point (P) is a coordinate, rather than a node (G1, G2)? I would want to do this because I find coordinates are more precise than empty nodes, and there ...
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TikZ coordinate that refers to the last "current coordinate"
Is it possible, within a TikZ path, to refer to the "current coordinate" as another coordinate?
To make it clear what I want, take this example, which I often end up doing because I don't ...
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How to plot geographic coordinates with tikz?
Hello I'm trying to plot geographic coordinates of a route between real locations. I'm struggling to show the graph in full page or zoomed in. I searched a bit on internet and I can't seem to find the ...
