http://www.wilke-j.de/hinweise/hinweise.html
How to use xfig:
http://xfig.org/userman/
summary:
(1) mouse button: central key to end plotting
(2) useful tools:
Drawing Objects
- Circles and Ellipses
- Spline Curves
- Polylines and Dimension lines
- Polygons
- Regular Polygons
- Rectangular Boxes
- Arc Boxes (Rectangular Boxes with rounded corners)
- Arcs
- Picture Objects (Imported image files)
- Texts
- Object Librarie
Editing Objects
The editing Mode Panel is used to perform edit operations on existing objects, See also Selecting Objects.- Glue COMPOUND
- Break COMPOUND
- Open COMPOUND temporarily
- Join/Split Lines/Splines/etc
- Chop Object
- Scale Object
- Align Objects
- Move Point
- Add Point
- Delete Point
- Move Object
- Copy Object
- Delete Object
- Update Attributes of Object
- Edit Attributes of Object
- Flip Object Vertically or Horizontally
- Rotate Object
- Convert SPLINE to/from LINE or BOX to/from ARC-BOX
- Add/Delete Arrows
- Add Tangent or Normal to Curve
- Measure Angle
- Measure Length of Lines and Arcs, and Perimeters of Circles and Ellipses
- Measure Area of Polygons and Ellipses