[Tex/LaTex] How to draw cubes in PSTricks with dashed hidden lines

pst-3dplot

I'd like to draw cubes with PSTricks (pst-3dplot) as shown in the related question Draw a prism in TikZ or PSTricks like these two

two cubes

with correct hidden lines, but with the code given there (Simple Boxes with pst-3dplot),

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-3dplot}
\begin{document}   
\psset{coorType=1,Alpha=135}
\begin{pspicture}(-1,-2)(5,2.25)
%\pstThreeDCoor[xMin=-1,xMax=4,yMin=-1,yMax=4,zMin=-1,zMax=4]
\pstThreeDBox[hiddenLine=false](0,0,0)(0,0,3)(3,0,0)(0,3,0)
\end{pspicture}
%
\psset{coorType=2}
\begin{pspicture}(-3,-2)(2,2.25)
%\pstThreeDCoor[xMin=-1,xMax=4,yMin=-1,yMax=4,zMin=-1,zMax=4]
\pstThreeDBox[hiddenLine](0,0,0)(0,0,3)(3,0,0)(0,3,0)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

I don't get the wanted results: Only four lines (of the 6 most outer ones) are drawn as solid lines, all other lines are drawn as dashed lines:

cube

Using macro in/visibleLineStyle=dashed/solid didn't help.

What's going wrong?

Wolfgang

Now it works! But if I use coordinate system 6,

\begin{pspicture}(-3,-2)(5,5)
\psset{coorType=2}
\pstThreeDBox[linewidth=1.1pt](0,0,0)(0,0,3)(3,0,0)(0,3,0)
\end{pspicture}
%
\begin{pspicture}(-3,-2)(5,5)
\psset{coorType=6}
\pstThreeDBox[linewidth=1.1pt](0,0,0)(0,0,3)(3,0,0)(0,3,0)
\end{pspicture}

I get again a wrong result:

two cubes

Best Answer

With the version 2.03 from http://archiv.dante.de/~herbert/texnik/tex/generic/pst-3dplot/ you'll get:

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Redefine of the internal scaling macro to get better x,y,z values. It makes more sense than using the default unit key for the 2D view:

\documentclass{article}    
\usepackage{pst-3dplot}
\begin{filecontents*}{plotting-of-3d-surface.data}
2.17    0.001   0.82044815
2.17    0.002   0.82345825
2.17    0.004   0.82679255
2.17    0.008   0.83334715
2.17    0.016   0.84395915
2.17    0.032   0.8584953
2.21    0.001   0.77582165
2.21    0.003   0.78520505
2.21    0.009   0.80205985
2.21    0.027   0.83085105
2.24    0.001   0.7227885
2.24    0.002   0.73391615
2.24    0.005   0.7543979
2.24    0.015   0.78798745
2.24    0.003   0.74176635
2.24    0.009   0.77064805
2.24    0.027   0.81042375
2.26    0.001   0.66545585
2.26    0.003   0.7012046
2.26    0.005   0.721067
2.26    0.009   0.7447984
2.26    0.015   0.76715245
2.26    0.027   0.794177
2.27    0.001   0.62916195
2.27    0.003   0.6774642
2.27    0.009   0.72961785
2.27    0.027   0.7861086
2.28    0.001   0.5750828
2.28    0.003   0.65059675
2.28    0.005   0.6802631
2.28    0.009   0.7145367
2.28    0.015   0.74447695
2.28    0.027   0.7774403
2.29    0.001   0.51357255
2.29    0.002   0.581053
2.29    0.003   0.6173075
2.29    0.009   0.6972096
2.29    0.027   0.76793225
2.31    0.001   0.36997965
2.31    0.002   0.474415
2.31    0.003   0.53649295
2.31    0.009   0.6587164
2.31    0.016   0.70870255
2.31    0.027   0.7482423
2.31    0.05    0.7912395
2.34    0.001   0.2204104
2.34    0.002   0.316308
2.34    0.003   0.39256745
2.34    0.004   0.45240835
2.34    0.009   0.5883453
2.34    0.016   0.6590771
2.34    0.027   0.71444205
2.34    0.05    0.7690014
2.38    0.001   0.13286995
2.38    0.002   0.1828288
2.38    0.004   0.2980268
2.38    0.008   0.4507145
2.38    0.016   0.58417075
2.38    0.032   0.6833616
\end{filecontents*}

\makeatletter
\pst@def{ScalePointsThreeD}<%
  counttomark dup dup cvi eq not { exch pop } if
  /m exch def /n m 3 div cvi def
  n {               % now we have x y z
    5 mul 3 1 roll    % z 
    100 mul 3 1 roll  % y
    3 1 roll          % x
    tx@3DPlotDict begin
    saveCoor
    ConvertTo2D
    x2D \pst@number\psxunit mul y2D \pst@number\psyunit mul 
    end
    m 1 sub 1 roll m 1 sub 1 roll /m m 3 sub def } repeat>
\makeatother
\begin{document}

\readdata{\data}{plotting-of-3d-surface.data}
 \begin{pspicture}
  \pstThreeDCoor[xMin=0,xMax=2.4,yMin=0,yMax=1,zMin=0,zMax=5]
  \listplotThreeD[plotstyle=curve]{\data}
 \end{pspicture}

\end{document}

enter image description here

[Tex/LaTex] What am I doing wrong with PSTricks 3D

You just need the following:

% latex filname.tex
% dvips filname.dvi
% ps2pdf filname.ps

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pst-3dplot}

\begin{document}

\begin{pspicture}(-3.2,-2.73)(3.18,3.65)
\pstThreeDCoor[
  xMin = -4,
  xMax = 4,
  yMin = -4,
  yMax = 4,
  zMax = 3,
  arrows = <->
]
\psplotThreeD[
  plotstyle = line,
  linecolor = blue,
  yPlotpoints = 40,
  xPlotpoints = 30,
  linewidth = 0.5pt,
  hiddenLine = true
](-2,2)(-2,2)
{x 100 mul cos y 100 mul sin sub}
\rput(0,3.5){$f(x,y) = \cos(100x) - \sin(100y)$}
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

output

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