Program for drawing communication figures

[beyondlight]

I am doing my thesis now and I will write it in Latex. But I need some kind of program to draw figures on communication symbols such as antennas, ADC converters, block diagrams with addition/subtraction/multiplication.

Probably this can be done in Latex, if so i would need some guidance on this, are there good documents that describe how to do this?

Otherwise i would be nice to use another program just for drawing figures.

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's one example specific to electrical diagrams:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinycad/

and here's another:

http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/

Also more general drawing tools like OpenOffice or MS Powerpoint may have the symbols that you can import as well.

 

[fresh_42]

I don't know what's possible in LaTeX but visio is a nice program with a lot of templates for figures in various fields.

 

[jedishrfu]

I found this one also:

https://www.latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/advanced/latex-circuitikz/

 

[analogdesign]

I did all the diagrams for my dissertation in Latex using the Circuit_macros based on the m4 macro preprocessor.

It is a bit of an old-fashioned way of doing things but the figures look great in the end.

https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/

If I were writing a dissertation today I would use Visio on a PC (that's what I use to draw diagrams for publication now).

 

[berkeman]

Another vote for Visio...

 

[analogdesign]

Following up on Visio, here is an OUTSTANDING template from Oregon State University with lots of excellent circuit / EE symbols. I use it all the time.

https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/wiki/ams/index.php/DocumentationPrograms/Visio

The page even explains step-by-step how to insert figures drawn with Visio into Latex.

I can't really recommend Visio with the Oregon State templates enough.

 

[berkeman]

Following up on Visio, here is an OUTSTANDING template from Oregon State University with lots of excellent circuit / EE symbols. I use it all the time.

https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/wiki/ams/index.php/DocumentationPrograms/Visio

The page even explains step-by-step how to insert figures drawn with Visio into Latex.

I can't really recommend Visio with the Oregon State templates enough.

Bookmarked!

 

[beyondlight]

Thanks for all the answers! You guys are awesome.

I will check out Visio and TinyCAD. Will read more about drawing figures in Latex.