Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Smith Chart

[devilsadvocate]

Hello Texians,

Does anybody know plotting packages for smith chart. Also pole-zero plots would be great.

Regards,

[localghost]

Perhaps it can be done with pgfplots. Via search engine I found an example that is done by Gnuplot [1]. Since pgfplots uses Gnuplot as back-end, it might be possible to translate a Gnuplot script to »tikZ« syntax. But I think that this would be very time consuming even if you are familiar with the syntax of both tools. I suppose that Matlab should also be able.

[1] gnuplot demo script poldat.dem


Thorsten

[devilsadvocate]

Thanks Thorsten. I am actually having trouble with pgfplot. In general I have good number of plots in my documentation, and pgfplot gives me memory error for large number of plots!. Also I am in a mode to stop using matlab for plotting. From the morning I am trying with someything. If I succeed, I will share it here.

Regards,

[devilsadvocate]

Saturday seemed to be fruitful. Smith chart can be drawn using the tkz-fct package. I did it!


Regards,
Sumit

[localghost]

That is very nice to hear. But it would be very kind and on top of that very useful if you post a complete example here. Since the manual is French, it is completely useless for me and I can't make anything out of it. At the moment I can't figure out how to do such a Smith chart with this package. Perhaps you can assist.


Thorsten

[devilsadvocate]

Actually it cannot be done, rather you will have to do it. It needs kind of little fine tuning with basic concentric circles!. I have something which I will be using in publication and i do not want to share. Give me a day or two time. I will write a plot which I can share here and I think I should share

Regards,

[localghost]

Hm, still no complete solution. Would have been interested in the proper construction of such a chart. Too bad.

[devilsadvocate]

Thanks for reminding me. I am too occupied with my transaction submission modification, two conference paper final manuscript preparation und corresponding presentation preparation. Will need little time. Please bear me. Thanks for reminding once again. I appreciate that.

Greetings from Wien,

[localghost]

Unfortunately still no solution. Would have been a good chance for you to give something back. But it is not needed any more. In the meantime I have found an excellent chart done with PSTricks [1]. At the moment this looks very promising.

[1] /PSTricks/Examples/Charts/chart

[localghost]

The new version 1.5 of the brilliant pgfplots package now available on CTAN supports Smith Charts by a special library. This way those charts can be done very easy.