Questions tagged [tikz-shape]
For questions concerning node shapes in PGF/TikZ.
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How to Automatically Resize Shape Around Nodes
I am using a Venn diagram to illustrate a functional relationship between two finite sets. Depending on the number of elements in the set, the ellipse I'm using may not include all the elements (and ...
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L-shaped arrows for diagram (tikz/latex)
If someone could tell me how to draw L-shaped arrows with text inside (as in the image attached)? I'm using node for normal arrows but I don't know how to make them L-shaped.
My code so far:
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How to define anchorborder for house-shaped PGF shape
I am trying to define a shape for drawing agents in graphical illustrations of data provenance. These agents are usually drawn with a house-shaped symbol, i.e., with an irregular pentagon where the ...
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TikZ split rectangle into 2
I am drawing a picture where I have nodes of different shapes and colors. For elliptical nodes, I get 2 halves as expected, but for rectangular ones I obtain 4 parts. The lower part text is not ...
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A pyramid with square base using latex [duplicate]
I have to draw some shapes to remind my students of the rules for volumes.
Please, I want to draw a pyramid with a square base, can anyone help? (V=1/3 x y h)
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Unspected behaviour using Shape geometric library inside axis environment
I want to draw this inverted triangle.
For this, I used the library shades.
\documentclass{standalone}
\standaloneconfig{border=5mm 5mm 5mm 5mm} % Left bottom right top
\usepackage{units}
\...
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Crop ellipse to fit in between other shapes in Tikz
Assuming I have two shapes and I want to add a circular shape (like an ellipse). How can I crop this ellipse so that it fits in between the other shapes like sketched below? I don't want to add white ...
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Superellipse filled with a color
I would like to create a superellipse shape. I found the following question "How do I make a superellipse node shape in tikz?" with @Jake's answer that does indeed produce a superellipse. ...
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Rotate part of custom multipart shape
I want to create a custom node shape that eventually looks like this:
It’s easy to draw a TikZ picture that renders the above, using multiple nodes. However, I want it to be a single node, so that I ...
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Fit text in a circular shape
I'm trying to fit a text within the arrows but in a circular shape, however, the text doesn't bend nicely.
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\begin{...
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Put text in shape with TikZ
Explanations
I try to put a text in shape to follow a figure’s edge to get someting like this:
(the red field is just given to explain)
Current situation
For the moment, this is my MWE
\documentclass[...
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Custom pgf shape: how to always stoke, sometimes fill?
I'm designing a collection of custom PGF shapes which will nearly always need to be stroked but only very occasionally filled. The experience I'd like the user to have is
With no other keys provided ...
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Tikz's custom shape fails when groupplots library is loaded
I am using a book documentclass to write a report where I draw some circuit/block schematics using a custom tikz shape called dff that I originally found here and then slightly customised.
Everything ...
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Set PGF anchor position in custom pgfshape with pgfkey as string?
How can I go about using a pgfkey to place an anchor if the key is a string?
Previous answers imply that setting anchors based on keys is possible using numerical keys (like this question on Creating ...
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Specify Radius for a cylinder, or draw edge for two 3d circles
I want to plot an optical fiber as in the picture below:
As you can see, the drawing is composed of three concentric cylinders of different radii. This question is about drawing just one of those, ...
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TikZ node changes size based on text length even after setting minimum width and height
I have a trapezium node in TikZ that I would like to maintain consistent dimensions no matter how many times it is called in the \tikzpicture.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Tikz: Setting an anchor in a pic for relative positioning
I have created a pic of a simple polygon which I want to use and reuse to create tikzpictures containing copies of it positioned relative to each other. How do I do that?
If I did not have the pic, I ...
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tikz: fit text exactly into the node (trapezium shape)
This LaTeX source:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[trapezium, draw, trapezium left angle=120, trapezium ...
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Tikz node for representing range on one dimensional axis
Consider a specific example of representing the range of a parameter value on one dimensional axis.
Blocks corresponding to specific solutes in a multi-solute solution are stacked on top of one ...
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How to draw shapes around text in TikZ?
Please look at the following figure. The right arrow consists of an &. I want to highlight only that & by drawing a circle or square or other shapes around it. The shape will be filled with ...
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Creating an ellipse-rectangle shaped node in tikz
I would like to create a new node shape. The left half of the node is shaped like a rectangle and the right half is shaped like an ellipse. I should be able to insert text in my node and the ...
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path picture add custom anchor
I would like to create an antenna shape in TikZ with custom anchors. Since I am struggling with \pgfdeclareshape, I am using path picture instead.
Is it possible to make the coordinates created inside ...
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How can I place a calculated value in a split shape using a macro and pgfmath?
I have a complicated split shape, with multiple nodeparts. I'd like to enter calculated values in the node parts.
When I try to do it using \pgfmathsetmacro I get an error Undefined control sequence.
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parallel lines in tikz
I have this code of two lines and I want to plot two parallel lines to those lines and then connet the opposite corners together .. is there a simple way to do it
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Align enumerate/itemize in tabular with rect text
How can I get the list to align vertically with the preceding text? In the middle cell, I want 1. to align vertically with "Inputs." In the bottom cell, "Goals" should be in the ...
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Why does [rounded rectangle] cause random "divide by zero" PGF Math Error?
I was using tikzmark to insert tikz drawings inside an equation when I encountered a weird bug, which I reduced to the following minimal (non-)working example:
The following file bug.tex,
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How to edit this code to get these two variants?
I have the following code
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing,calligraphy}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=...
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How to draw brackets along the edges of a rectangle?
I have the following code to draw the rectangle with diagonal
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=0.7]
\draw (0,0) ...
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How to draw this rectangle with numbers along its edge?
I'm trying to draw this picture, which is created from MS Excel.
I'm only able to draw a simple rectangle
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to positioning background's text?
I have two questions.
How can I enlarge the background and change the position of the text? and,
Why is the last trapezoid larger than the other figures?
This is my WE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{...
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Rectangle with multiple outgoing/incoming triangles
I would like to create boxes with arbitrary combinations of incoming/outgoing triangles
as in the following picture:
I thought about using a signal from the TikZ library shapes.symbols,
but signal ...
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Good practice in defining multipart shapes for TikZ
I have created a multipart shape for use in TikZ.
The shape has three levels, with five text entries.
The top level is a rectangle whose dimensions are only based on the text in that rectangle.
The ...
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\usetikzlibrary{shapes} : shapes library not available: mac
I am trying to figure out tikz with the help of various video tutorials and help pages. They all tell me to use \usetikzlibrary{shapes}. But texstudio tells me that there is an "unrecognized key in ...
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How to eliminate the offset for a continued shape?
I wanted to add a little extra to the last shape in a chain (see image for a better understanding). However, i ran into an unexpected problem, because i thought the (black&red) lines would connect ...
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Drawing a cut cylinder with Tikz
I'm trying to use tikz to create the attached image, but I'm not sure this is possible. I know I can use the package to draw cylinders, as shown here and here. But I don't think I can use the \...
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Tikz: Define custom shape conditionally drawn
I am trying to create a custom shape in Tikz in a way that would allow me to use the node's options to determine how such a shape should be drawn.
With the example Rectangle node with diagonal fill ...
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How do I create very small shapes?
I'd like to draw multiple very small shapes. But there seems to be a minimum size of approx. 3mm (for circles) if I use minimum width to change the size.
Is there a simple way to create smaller ...
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Tikz: error when using beamer-class but not when using article-class
I'm using Overleaf to build a beamer presentation and wanted to add rectangles around cells in table (as described in this other question/answer by barbara beeton). Unfortunately, I get error messages ...
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Multiple Color PGF Shape
I have a Two shapes I use as a nodes. Currently I have Two styles, which overlap, which limits the number of nodes I can have by half. What I am trying to do is create a pgf shape so that both shapes ...
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Changing the current direction arrow in TikZ' circuits.ee library
I want to change the arrow tip used for indicating the current directions in TikZ' circuits.ee library (first path in the MWE below) to something else, say the Stealth tip (second path in the MWE). In ...
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Add builder hat to other people with tikzpeople
I'm using the tikzpeople package to draw some scenarios. Now I would like to give the hat, that the builder is wearing to alice, charlie, and dave. As it is not attribute like the monitor or the ...
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Custom "computer" resp. "server" shape for tikz [duplicate]
Similar to the custom "human" shape resp. the tikzpeople package I'm now looking for nice computer shapes. I'm drawing some diagram showing the collaboration and communication of humans through some ...
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Adding introspection to TikZ/pgf shapes
After digging into the output of \tracingmacros=1 during a while, I'll ask here... I am trying to add a bit of introspection to pgf shapes. The idea is to be able to "extract" a \savedmacro of a shape....
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How to adjust arrow head size of arrow-node?
I am trying to use single arrow node from shapes.arrows TikZ library. The problem is with the proper adjustment of the arrow tip span - with the argument single arrow head extend.
MWE:
\documentclass{...
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Custom tikz shapes: High level alternative to \pgfdeclareshape
So I've been researching making own shapes in TikZ. As most things in LaTeX, I've come to learn, it seems to have an extremely deep rabbit hole.
So I was wondering - is there an easy way out?
Is it ...
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Tikz style for rectangle with text in border
I'm trying to create a reusable style (let's call it titlerect) for a tikz node which is supposed to look something like the following figure I quickly whipped up in Inkscape:
I imagine it should be ...
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How do I draw and define two right triangles next to each other?
My goal is to draw a figure exactly like this
The best I could do coding this was:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{float}
\begin{document}...
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TikZ node shape depends on inside text
In one of my previous answers, my first proposal
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{quotes,angles}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,-4)--(0,4) node[above] {$Im$} (-4,0)--(...
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Ellipses aligned on the same boundary point
I want to create a cascade of ellipses in TikZ. However, with my code, I get the ellipses to have the same center. But what I instead want, is that the ellipses have a common point on their boundary (...
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