A way to draw a lab apparatus

Asked May 15 '12 at 15:50

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Are there any packages that would make a simple lab apparatus easy to draw?

e.g. a spectrometer connected to a computer and has a wire before a light emitting tube, the wire also being connected to said spectrometer.

edited May 15 '12 at 15:55

asked May 15 '12 at 15:50

Lightyear Buzz

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Maybe you need some GUI software, like xfig, Inkscape, MS Visio, EDraw, etc. – Leo Liu May 15 '12 at 16:18
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Dia (http://live.gnome.org/Dia) (similar to Visio but freeware) has lab equipment templates. And it can export pgf code. – R. Schumacher May 15 '12 at 16:38

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The following are PSTricks packages for drawing lab apparatus:

pst-labo to draw lab apparatus related to chemistry.
pst-pulley to draw pulley.
Various Physics diagrams and laboratory equipments that have not been bundled into packages. The site was very very cool! Unfortunately, its contents are written in French so we might have difficulties to understand even with the Google translator.

Particle Deflector:

Gear:

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Kess Vargavind

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answered May 15 '12 at 16:01

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