Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ makecirc | Circuit Diagrams with MetaPost

[TDKBW]

Greetings to All.

I am trying to draw circuit diagrams in MetaPost for inclusion into a LaTeX Document. The package I hope to use is called makecirc. However, I have no experience whatsoever with MetaPost which is causing me troubles.

Can anybody help me use one of their examples? I have installed the package.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

However, I have no experience whatsoever with MetaPost which is causing me troubles.

So why do you use MetaPost? Was makecirc just the first you found? Would you consider alternative packages? For example, based on the widely used TikZ and PSTricks.

• There's a circuit library in TikZ. It's documented in the TikZ manual, in 29 Circuit Libraries.
• The circuitikz package is also based on TikZ. See perhaps: circuitikz examples.
• pst-circ is based on PSTricks.

Stefan

[shadgrind]

Can anybody help me use one of their examples? I have installed the package.

Sure. Here's how you could make a document that includes the circuit in Figure 6 on page 17 of the MakeCirc-en.pdf documentation file.

1. Create a file called mycircuit.mp with these contents:

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input makecirc;
initlatex("\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}");
beginfig(0);
resistor.a(origin,normal,90,"R","10\ohm");
inductor.a(R.a.r+(2cm,0),Up,-90,"L","");
centreof.A(R.a.r,L.a.l,cap);
capacitor.a(c.A,normal,phi.A,"C","");
wire(R.a.r,C.a.l,nsq);
wire(C.a.r,L.a.l,nsq);
wire(L.a.r,R.a.l,udsq);
endfig;
end

2. In a terminal window run metapost twice on that file:

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mpost mycircuit.mp
mpost mycircuit.mp

3. Create a LaTeX file called makecirctest.tex:

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\documentclass{article}
\include{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{mycircuit.0}
\end{document}

4. Compile the makecirctest.tex file:

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latex makecirctest.tex
dvips makecirctest.dvi
ps2pdf makecirctest.ps

The result will look like this:

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