General ⇒ Block diagrams in latex

[frey]

Hello! What thing i may use for simple drawing block diagrams in latex documents? I think this is a some metapost macroses?

[localghost]

Take a look at pgf/tikZ or PSTricks (especially pstricks-add). To get familiar with those, some examples might be helpful [1,2]. You should find something useful for you in the archives or in the documentations of the packages.

[1] PSTricks examples
[2] PGF and TikZ examples gallery | fauskes.net


Best regards
Thorsten

[frey]

Thanks. Oh may be i used not right english word for thing that i need. In wikipedia this name is flowchart, like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... xample.png. May be some special tool for drawing flowcharts exists?

It is possible that i need only to specify dependency between elements, not its position? Or big flowcharts automatic divided between pages?

Thanks!

[localghost]

My answer remains the same. Taking look at the examples reveals the packages to be the right ones [1,2]. You could have found these examples very easily by yourself. Reading the documentations will be of great help. That's what they are made for.

[1] PSTricks / psmatrix
[2] PGF and TikZ examples gallery | fauskes.net - Page 3

[frey]

Pstricks are very usefull! But thete is no framed box for figure like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/f/ff/Loop.GIF
How i can create it?

Thanks!

[gmedina]

Pstricks are very usefull! But thete is no framed box for figure like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/f/ff/Loop.GIF
How i can create it?

Thanks!

All I can see in your linked figure is a non-regular hexagon that can be easily produced with both PSTricks and PGF/TikZ, Maybe your link was not correct?

[frey]

Yes, but i need framed box, that changes size accordingly to text inside it. Or it easily produced too?

[frey]

Oh, already found answer:
\pspolygonbox[PolyNbSides=6]{text}

[frey]

Hello! New question.

I make a flowchart with pspolygonbox and can't achieve right node connection with it, look like this:

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\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[shrink]
\psset{shadowcolor=black!70,blur=true}%
\frametitle{Алгоритм вычисления поправок скорости.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{p{2cm}c}
    \begin{psmatrix}[rowsep=0.8,colsep=0.4]
%   \begin{psmatrix}
                    & \\[-25pt]
                    & \rnode{N1}{\psovalbox[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=yellow!30,shadow=true]{Начало}}\\[0pt]
        [name=X1]   & \\[-25pt]
                    & \rnode{N2}{\psframebox[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=blue!30,shadow=true]{
                        \tabular{cccc}
                             some & long & text & here
                        \endtabular}}\\[0pt]
        [name=X2]   & \\[-25pt]
                    & \Rnode{N3}{\pspolygonbox[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=green!30,shadow=true,PolyNbSides=6]{
                        \tabular{cc}
                             this & too
                        \endtabular}}\\[0pt]
        [name=X3]   & \\[-25pt]
                    & \rnode{N4}{\psframebox[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=blue!30,shadow=true]{
                        \tabular{l}
                             and this
                        \endtabular}}\\[0pt]

How i can move pspolygonbox relative to the node center? I used \Rnode[vref=x], but this only affect to the right arrow.

Thanks!

[frey]

Please help! Diploma defending are coming soon!