technical-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 external tool which can export into tikz or pdf. Can anybody suggest one?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphics}
\begin{document}
\fbox{\begin{picture}(200,200)
\thicklines
\put(100,10){\line(0,1){180}}
\put(10,100){\line(1,0){180}}
\put(100,190){\makebox(0,0)[b]{\textsc{TiKZ}}}
\put(100,10){\makebox(0,0)[t]{\textsc{PsTricks}}}
\put(10,100){\makebox(0,0)[r]{\rotatebox{90}{\textsc{Picture Mode}}}}
\put(190,100){\makebox(0,0)[l]{\rotatebox{-90}{\textsc{MetaPost}}}}
\put(50,150){\makebox(0,0){Easy}}
\put(150,150){\makebox(0,0){Hard}}
\put(50,50){\makebox(0,0){Clear}}
\put(150,50){\makebox(0,0){Obscure}}
\end{picture}}
\end{document}
pst-solides3d seems a good option here. In the PS-Tricks gallery of 3D examples you have a nice starting point by Manuel Luque:
\documentclass{article}% Manuel Luque
\usepackage{pst-solides3d}
\def\bicone{% generation du bicone
/dZ 0.5 def
/Rayon 3 def % rayon de la base
/Hauteur 3 def % hauteur d'un cone
/THETA Rayon Hauteur atan def
/tanTHETA {Rayon Hauteur div} bind def
/dPHI 10 def
/tableau_des_sommets [
Hauteur neg dZ Hauteur dZ sub{/Z exch def
0 dPHI 360 {/PHI exch def
/r1 Z abs tanTHETA mul def
/r2 Z dZ add abs tanTHETA mul def
r1 PHI cos mul % x0
r1 PHI sin mul % y0
Z % z0
r1 PHI dPHI add cos mul % x1
r1 PHI dPHI add sin mul % y1
Z % z1
r2 PHI dPHI add cos mul % x2
r2 PHI dPHI add sin mul % y2
Z dZ add % z2
r2 PHI cos mul % x3
r2 PHI sin mul % y3
Z dZ add % z3
} for
} for
]
def
/Sommets {tableau_des_sommets aload pop} def
/NbrePoints tableau_des_sommets length 3 div cvi def
/Faces {0 4 NbrePoints 4 sub {
/Ni exch def
[ Ni Ni 1 add Ni 2 add Ni 3 add]
} for
} def
/Faces_internes {0 4 NbrePoints 4 sub {
/Ni exch def
[Ni 3 add Ni 2 add Ni 1 add Ni]
} for
} def
}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\psset{unit=0.7}
\psset{lightsrc=viewpoint}
\psset{viewpoint=100 30 20 rtp2xyz,Decran=100}
\begin{pspicture}(-3,-5)(3,5)
\pstVerb{\bicone}%
\psSolid[object=new,sommets=Sommets,faces={Faces},
hollow,
incolor=yellow!25,
intersectiontype=0,
intersectionlinewidth=2,
intersectioncolor=(rouge),
intersectionplan={[0 0.5 1 1]}]
\axesIIID[linecolor=blue](0,0,3)(8.5,4.5,4)
\end{pspicture}
\begin{pspicture}(-5,-5)(5,5)
\pstVerb{\bicone}%
\psset{solidmemory}
\psSolid[object=new,sommets=Sommets,faces={Faces},
hollow,
plansepare={[0 0.5 1 1]},
name=partbicone,
action=none]
\psSolid[object=load,
hollow,rm=0,
incolor=yellow!25,
load=partbicone1,
intersectiontype=0,
intersectionlinewidth=2,
intersectioncolor=(rouge),
intersectionplan={[0 0.5 1 1.01]}]
\psSolid[object=plan,definition=equation,
args={[0 0.5 1 1] 180},
base=-3 3 -3 3,linewidth=0.01,
planmarks,showBase,
action=draw]
\psSolid[object=load,
incolor=yellow!25,
load=partbicone0](0,4,0)
\axesIIID[linecolor=blue](0,0,0)(8.5,4.5,4)
\end{pspicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}
The resulting image (taken directly from the PSTricks homepage):
Best Answer
A list of drawing tools that can export TikZ code is maintained on the TeXExample site.
http://www.texample.net/tikz/resources/#tools-that-generate-pgftikz-code
Most of the tools mentioned are either some form of conversion script, or a stand-alone graphics editor. Most of the graphics editor tools can export to PDF.