[Tex/LaTex] OrCAD/PSpice schematics into LaTeX

Question

Good morning, I found this book, “Introduction to Electric Circuits”; Dorf, Svoboda, 9th Edition, 2014. I know this text was made using \LaTeX, my concern is about to know how they got this circuit style. I noticed the editors used OrCAD Capture to design these circuits in order to make them easily and faster (also by looking at the inductor style in this example). I would like to know if anyone out there has had the same concern, circuitikz sometimes does not have enough power, and for instance, I like this current source more than the circuitikz's, with a thick straight triangle in the arrow instead of this one. You can easily distinguish them.

I hope I get some help, any advice is welcome. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

This is one way of doing it via circuitiz package. Two customized circuit elements are designed via macros called mycurrent and myswitch, hoping this will serve as a starting point.

Code

\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}  
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[american,siunitx]{circuitikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning}


\newcommand{\mycurrent}[2] % #1 = name , #2 = rotation angle
{\draw[thick] (#1) circle (12pt);
\draw[rotate=#2,line width=1pt]  (#1)  +(0,-6pt) -- +(0,6pt) coordinate(a1);
\draw[rotate=#2,thin] ($(a1)+(0,1pt)$) to [bend right=12] ++(2pt,-5pt);
\draw[rotate=#2,thin] ($(a1)+(0,1pt)$) to [bend left=12] ++(-2pt,-5pt);
}
%
\newcommand{\myswitch}[2]{
\draw[rotate=#2] (#1) +(-0.58,0) coordinate(c)  +(0.57,0) coordinate (a)
 +(0,-0.5 )coordinate(b)
(a)node[above](a1){a} arc (0:-50:0.6)
(b)node[left] (b1){b} arc (-90:-0:0.4);
\draw [shorten >=-10pt] (c)node[below](c1){c}-- ($(a)!0.5!(b)$);
\draw[thick,red,->] (c) ++ (0.5,0.3)  to[bend left] ++(-0.5,-0.8)node[above=0.5cm]{\scriptsize$t=0$};
}

\begin{document}  
\begin{circuitikz}
\draw (-1,0)node(o){} to[I=$6A$] (-1,2);      % default current

\draw (0,2) to[I,color=white,name=C1] (0,0);  % customized curent
\mycurrent{C1}{0}

\draw (-1,2) to[generic,color=white,name=S1] (3.5,2) to[I,color=white,name=C2] (5,2); %customized element
\myswitch{S1}{0}
\mycurrent{C2}{-90}
\draw (b) to[short,o-*] (b|-o);
\draw (-1,2) to[short,-o](c);
\draw (a) to[short,o-](3.5,2);

\draw (-1,0) to[short](5,0);
\draw (3.5,2) to[R=$4$,*-*] (3.5,0);
\draw (5,2) to[L, l=$\frac{1}{5}F$] (5,0);
\end{circuitikz}

\end{document}