A TikZ-LaTeX package to draw steel cross-sections
It is a very tough work to prepare high-quality figures for papers and reports. The aim of the package is to make such time-consuming procedure, easier for the engineers and academics in the field of cold-formed and hot-rolled steel, structural engineering.
This package is developed over the very useful and powerfull TikZ package. Therefor, all the great features of that library is accessible when using TikZ-Steel. Apparently you will need LaTeX and TikZ installed on your system in order to be able to use this package.
Clone this or download the latest version of this repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/someparsa/TikZ-Steel.git
Put the .sty file in the directory where you save your LaTeX file. Then import the package like any other standard packages in LaTeX system.
\usepackage{tikzSteel}
This package is still not added to the CTAN.
- Cold-formed steel (CFS) cross-sections
- Hot-rolled steel (HRS) cross-sections
- CFS cross-sections with stiffeners
- Cross-sections with general nodal points
- Export the shapes to CAD DXF format
- 3D drawing of the profiles
- Dimensions and annotations
- Readme and a guide for the package
- fill in the cross-sections shape with pattern or shading