Drawing electrical circuits
Technical documents in the domain of electrical engineering often comprise numerous formulas and many drawings. LaTeX excels in math typesetting, making it a top choice for authors. As we explored in a prior section of this chapter, the siunitx package makes representing electrical units in compliance with standards easy.
Drawing electrical circuits directly in LaTeX has various benefits. Unlike importing external images, drawings done within LaTeX can have annotations that precisely match the text regarding fonts and styles for perfect consistency.
Therefore, this section focuses on generating circuit diagrams. We aim to design a circuit featuring typical electrical components such as resistors, diodes, capacitors, bulbs, and more.
Note
The drawing in this recipe serves as a sample, and attempting to replicate it with actual components at home is not advised.
How to do it...
The TikZ graphics package provides several libraries for drawing...
