The editing could be carried much further, but as an example I feel this is sufficient. Then I went through the file, adding color attributes to individual path to be able to locate which one is which, and, with a help of an overlayed grid, editted at least some of the paths. At least the version of pstoedit on my computer does not do conversion to tikz, but metapost uses very similar syntax for path specifications, so I converted to metapost and eddited by hand. Then I use pstoedit to convert it to an editable format. That step would not be necessary if the original already was in a vector format. png image, deleted some irrelevant parts, and use potrace to get a vectorized version. You can then edit the code, clean it up, shorten it, etc.Įdit: I took the original. (I tried to include the code here, but it was too large.) You could start with something like this: Or otherwise) gives you a scalable vector graphics image which you can then use to overlay your annotations using techniques described in Drawing on an image with TikZ. Printing any of these to PDF if no other means exist (again, using free software like PDF Creator print driver These can be converted to TikZ images using Inkscape. Similarly, OpenClipArt provides SVG images in abundance (sometimes more cartoon-like though), including many for airplanes. Some more related examples/hints by authorįigure 8(a) in above article 3D Illustrations using sketch of aircraft: More details have a look at Italian document titled "Illustrazioni tridimensionali A con Sketch/LaTeX/PSTricks/Tikz nella didattica della Dinamica del Volo by A De Marco" at arstexnica no 4, Oct 2007. A novel feature allows LaTeX objects to be positioned with respect to 3d points in the scene. Sketch emits PSTricks or TikZ/PGF code and allows embedding arbitrary LaTeX code for labeling and any other purpose the user can imagine.
Well, there are many other applications that you can use and easily export to a graphics format that can be included into your document using \includegraphics from graphicx.įor example, searching the Google Sketchup 3D Warehouse for airplane gives you detailed 3D models of everything from a Boeing:Īnother 3D graphic tools, Sketch:3D Scene Description Translator not to be confused with google sketchup draws two- or three-dimensional solid objects and scenes by describing them in a tiny input language. Here I'm actually referencing abstract/non-mathematical drawings, including an airplane with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. I would politely discourage anyone from drawing extremely technical drawings like this one
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