[New Component] Saturation Block #758
Description
Hello everyone,
I'm using circuit tikz to draw block diagrams (for electric systems control).
I wanted to define a new component myself which would be a saturation block :
It's widely used in power electronics to model the boundaries of a signal (for instance a maximum output current that the converter cannot exceed). It is used in simulation softwares like Simulink : https://fr.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/saturation.html
It is my first time defining a new component for Circuitikz so here what i've managed to do :
\makeatletter
\ctikzset{bipoles/saturation/width/.initial=.7}
\def\pgfcirc@twoport@draw@satdraw{
\pgfscope
\pgfsetlinewidth{1.2\pgfstartlinewidth}
\pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpointorigin}
\pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{.4\pgf@circ@res@step}{.4\pgf@circ@res@step}}
\pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{0.65\pgf@circ@res@step}{.4\pgf@circ@res@step}}
\pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpointorigin}
\pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{-.4\pgf@circ@res@step}{-.4\pgf@circ@res@step}}
\pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{-0.65\pgf@circ@res@step}{-.4\pgf@circ@res@step}}
\pgfusepath{draw}
\endpgfscope
}
%% saturation
\pgfcirc@define@twoports{blocks}
{}
{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/saturation/width}}
{saturation}
{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/saturation/width}}
{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/saturation/width}}
{
\pgfcirc@twoport@draw@satdraw{0}
%\pgftext[x=0.45\pgf@circ@res@left]{\ctikzvalof{bipoles/twoport/text}}
}
\pgfcirc@activate@bipole@simple{l}{saturation}
\makeatother
I just wanted to add the possibility to put value or variable name for the upper and lower boundaries of the saturation like that :
I thought of adding new anchors but I don't know how to do that.
Also, if you're ok with that, can you tell me how I could add this new block, once finished to the new circuitikz release ?
Thank's for your help ;).