Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ circuitikz, american inductors. Please help

[winten1]

Whetever I do it gives me eighter "cuteinductor" or european inductor. I want clasical inductor (with four mountain sagments)

I use:

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\begin{circuitikz}[american inductor]
\draw
(0, 0) to[L] (2, 0)
;
\end{circuitikz}

According to documentation this suppose to give me the inductor i want, but it gives me "cute inductor"

[gmedina]

Hi,

load the circuitikz package like this:

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\usepackage[americaninductors]{circuitikz}

[winten1]

It gives me error:

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `americaninductors' for package `circuitikz'.

However,

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\usepackage[americaninductor]{circuitikz}

(inudctor[S] without s gives no error, but no effect). Although in documentation inductor[s] is with s. Maybe my circuititz is outdated?

[gmedina]

It gives me error:

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! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `americaninductors' for package `circuitikz'.

This shows that your system is using an old version of the package. Update your LaTeX system.

[localghost]

Whetever I do it gives me eighter "cuteinductor" or european inductor. I want clasical inductor (with four mountain sagments) […]

It won't draw this kind of symbol. You'll either get a coil (american) or a filled rectangle (european) as symbol for the inductor. This fact is independent of the package version.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[winten1]

It does exist, check the manual file:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphic ... manual.pdf

Page 11, 4-th from the bottom.

I recently downloaded TexLive 2010 package, is there anything else I need to update?

[localghost]

I recommend to send a note to the package maintainer. As far as I understand the manual, drawing this cute inductor should be default behaviour. It even doesn't work when explicitly setting the necessary options.

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[%
  cuteinductors,
  americaninductors
]{circuitikz}

\begin{document}
	\begin{circuitikz}
		\draw (0,0) to[L] (2,0);
	\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

[gmedina]

I recommend to send a note to the package maintainer. As far as I understand the manual, drawing this cute inductor should be default behaviour. It even doesn't work when explicitly setting the necessary options.

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[%
  cuteinductors,
  americaninductors
]{circuitikz}

\begin{document}
	\begin{circuitikz}
		\draw (0,0) to[L] (2,0);
	\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

Hi, localghost. If you remove the cuteinducors option and keep the americaninductors option then you'll get the kinf of inductor that the OP desires (if I understood his/her requirement correctly).

With this code:

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[%
  americaninductors
]{circuitikz}

\begin{document}
   \begin{circuitikz}
      \draw (0,0) to[L] (2,0);
   \end{circuitikz}
\end{document}

\end{document} 

I get the attached PDF (using TeX Live2010).

[winten1]

That is exactly what I wanted, thank you very much, however I cannot test this at the moment. I just installed MiKTeX 2.9, and then I click "Typeset" button (compile to PDF) it gives me error.

pdflatex.exe: The memory dump file could not be found.
pdflatex.exe: Data: pdflatex.fmt

I get back to my computer tomorow to test this, very thanks that you uploaded PDF. I do not know how to thank you, you really helped.

[localghost]

[…] Hi, localghost. If you remove the cuteinducors option and keep the americaninductors option then you'll get the kinf of inductor that the OP desires (if I understood his/her requirement correctly).[…]

Hm, now I see. It went wrong with version 0.2.2 and I tried this option. Just forgot the update of the MiKTeX system.