<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Dear Joel,</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>thank you for your answer!</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span class="VIiyi" jsaction="mouseup:BR6jm" jsname="jqKxS" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="de" data-phrase-index="0" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$659" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb">My answer has now taken a little longer because I have now considered my questions very carefully.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>The SW should <strong>be able </strong>to do the following:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>Dimetric </strong>view (= <strong>general axonometry</strong>). Their shortening ratios are x: y: z = 1: 2: 2. The x-axis runs diagonally down to the left, the y-axis is inclined slightly to the right, the z-axis runs vertically. The result is very clear spatial bodies! In the TikZ manual, however, only </span></span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Birds_eye_view,_military_projection">military projections </span><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>are shown where the y-axis is horizontal. This representation looks awkward.</span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>simple coordinate </strong>input (x, y, z)</span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>Mathematical equations </strong>for the body outline</span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>beautiful </strong>views (I like the graphics for the article you are linking to.)</span></span></span></li>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>I want to draw <strong>this </strong>with the SW:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Tripod with the coordinates of a point</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>standing rotating cylinder </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>two rotating cylinders that intersect each other </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Double cone </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Double cone including the cutting plane that cuts a hyperbola out of the cone </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>single- and double-shell hyperboloid </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>elliptical paraboloid </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>inclined planes </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>a cube with a space diagonal </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi" jsaction="mouseup:BR6jm" jsname="jqKxS" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="de" data-phrase-index="0" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$780" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb">a sketch for total differential and particulate derivatives</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>a straight line in three-dimensional space.</span></span></span></li>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>In total, that's about 20 drawings.</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>I've done a lot of research:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>GeoGebra </strong>can do 1-3, but does not give good results (4). </span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>Blender </strong>is very nice (4), but I can't do 1-3. And the familiarization with Blender is gigantic. Are there shortcuts?</span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span><strong>TikZ </strong>doesn't seem to be able to do 1 and 3, but is otherwise very nice (4). I just don't know my way around 2, the syntax in the manual is quite confusing. I have the impression that TikZ only pursues a two-dimensional concept here, in which everything has to be calculated in a laborious manner. Or is the syntax for 3D graphics - without a TikZ editor - described somewhere - simply? (I have already created over 60 2D graphics with PGF / TikZ. And without an editor, but directly in the associated syntax with the help of the TikZ manual and by trial and error. I have had some practice with that.)</span></span></span><br/>
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<span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>But maybe there are <strong>packages </strong>for that ...?</span></span></span><br/>
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<li><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>The <strong>TikZ editor </strong>needs <strong>Python</strong>. I have not installed that on myself. I have no experience with that either. Is that easy or does it create a huge number of problems?</span></span></span></li>
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<div><span class="VIiyi" jsaction="mouseup:BR6jm" jsname="jqKxS" lang="en"><span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="de" data-phrase-index="0" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$444" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb">(Additional question: do my specifications 1-4 restrict the sheer unmanageable variety of SW? Mathcha, TikZiT, TikzEdt, Tikzcd, KtikZ, ImageMagick, R, knitR, Asamptote, Inkscape, MatheGrafix, MathematikAlpha, MathProf, MathType, PST-Solides3d, Sage, TpX TeX Drawing Tool, Sketch, 3DLDF, ...)</span></span></span></div>
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<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Greetings</span></span></span></div>
<div><span class="VIiyi"><span class="JLqJ4b"><span>Andreas</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 26. März 2021 um 22:51 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Joel Kulesza" <jkulesza@gmail.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Andreas Plihal" <a.plihal@gmx.at><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> "mailing lyx" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: 3D graphics for LYX</div>
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<div>On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:06 AM Andreas Plihal <<a href="mailto:a.plihal@gmx.at" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:a.plihal@gmx.at'; return false;" target="_blank">a.plihal@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><span><span><span>With which tool is it possible to produce professional 3D graphics in the context of LYX?</span></span> <span><span>Can a software such as tikzpicture be used for this?</span></span> <span><span>And if so, how?</span></span></span></div>
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<div>Andreas,</div>
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<div>I regularly use TikZ for (3-D) graphics in LyX. Unfortunately, there is no built-in editor, so I tend to create the images in <a href="https://github.com/fredokun/TikZ-Editor" target="_blank">TikZ Editor</a> (or just my favorite text editor), save the .tex file, and then use Insert -> Child Document -> Input. </div>
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<div>Many of the images for <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306454917304991" target="_blank">this article</a> took the aforementioned approach when preparing the manuscript in LyX.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps,</div>
<div>Joel</div>
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