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Questions tagged [technical-drawing]

{technical-drawing} is about engineering drawings with units and dimensions of each component also known as drafting.

{technical-drawing} is about engineering drawings with units and dimensions of each component also known as drafting. Technical drawings are drawn by draftsmen using computer aided software like AutoCAD etc.

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How can I draw a DAG?

Possible Duplicate: Typesetting a directed, weighted graph with TikZ I would like to draw a DAG - Directed acyclic graph. How can I do this?
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Draw small cross at the center of the page

I want to draw a small cross at the horizontal and vertical center of my page. (at this position I want to glue in a CD). Should I create an image with a cross and center it or draw it directly with latex?
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Drawing a political spectrum

What would be the best way of drawing a political spectrum diagram like this one:
raphink
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blocks attached to each other

For my thesis, I often need to write blocks attached to each other. More explicitely, I want to have blocks as in page 13 of http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/392.pdf. EDIT: @morbusg. Is it possible to (easily?) fix the following (in order to get what we…
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Drawing serial connection networking

I know how to draw a simple line using TIKZ but I'm interested to draw something similar to the picture below, between two nodes. Later edit: Just to complicate it a little bit, let's suppose there are 3 nodes at positions: (0,0) (5,-1) and (3,-3).…
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draw security protocol

It's about authenticated key exchange protocol, there are two parties party A and party B,they exchange some messages. At the end they compute the shared keys SK. I know that it's vey cool to use Latex to set type, I really want to learn it. Any…
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can I add a blueprint (technical drawing) to my document?

I would like to add a technical drawing to my document. Until now, I have exported it as a figure and included that. Sadly, it loses its vector properties during the process. Furthermore, I have seen .pdf files including objects that can be e.g.…
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Array of rectangles filled with text and formulas

I would like to draw in LaTeX rectangles regularly spaced, 4 lines of rectangles, each line containing 2 rectangles in which I am allowed to type texts and equations. Any LaTeX code for that? EDIT Specifically I would like to reproduce the…
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asme y14.5 symbols & feature control frame

I have used LaTeX a little bit for math (one Ipython notebook assignment to be exact). I am a draftsman, I have been searching for a LaTeX library to do asme y14.5 symbols in LaTeX. I haven't found one for asme y14.5 symbols yet, however most of the…
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Is exporting of the 3D drawing from GeoGebra 5 possible?

My apologies if this is an off-topic question here. I'm trying to get any export (Asymptote, TikZ or PSTricks) of the 3D drawing from GeoGebra 5.0. Once I've got some 2D drawing, everything seems all right (see the first screenshot), but after I…
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How to draw this diagram?

I don't know how to draw this by latex.
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Recommended tools for vector drawing

I would like to draw a wind turbine to demonstrate the coordinate systems used in my calculations. A similar one as follows However I am wondering which tool would fit for this. I am beginner in tikz, therefore one solution would be to draw in an…
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How to draw process scheduling schemes?

I was wondering whether it was possible to draw something like the following in Latex. If so what kind of package do I need to use? An example: Thanks!
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How to create a horizontal line over the whole document?

How to create a horizontal line over the whole document exactly at the middle of the paper? I would like this line to be over all other objects previously created and placed, to get the effect of cutting the whole document by half with a horizontal…
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Formatting Safety messages

In technical documentation the appearance of safety messages is regulated, e.g. ANSI Z535. I was wondering if anyone is aware of an implementation of such a norm in LaTeX. If not would anyone be interested in such a task? It is currently beyond my…
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