<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Hemza</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:hemza.dz@gmail.com">hemza.dz@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 07:29<br>Subject: Re: [Ipe-discuss] How to draw a spring?<br>To: Fabien Lafont <<a href="mailto:lafont.fabien@gmail.com">lafont.fabien@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">it is possible to sketch 'zig zag' springs, but coils like springs are not easy to sketch.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 07:19, Fabien Lafont <<a href="mailto:lafont.fabien@gmail.com" target="_blank">lafont.fabien@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Just stretch it. Keyboard shortcut : e</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 08:10 Hemza via Ipe-discuss <<a href="mailto:ipe-discuss@lists.science.uu.nl" target="_blank">ipe-discuss@lists.science.uu.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, <div>I just began to learn how to use Ipe. It is a great tool and already saved me many hours on drawing physics illustrations.</div><div>One thing that I find frustrating to draw is drawing 'springs' (which are crucial things in mechanics problems). In Tikz, you could control how the spring looks like (see e.g <a href="https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41608/draw-mechanical-springs-in-tikz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41608/draw-mechanical-springs-in-tikz</a>). Is there anything I can do to mimic this on Ipe? </div><div><br></div><div>Hemza.</div></div>
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