Note the difference in structure between this file and the previous one, feedback0.tex. In this case the various \tikzset{... commands are positioned before the \begin{document} statement. This is to demonstrate that these commands might also be placed in a document-wide .sty file, that is included in all tikz-figures belonging to the document, as well as the main document itself.
All subsequent figures will have this structure.
\documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,positioning} \usetikzlibrary{narrow} \tikzset{block/.style={draw, rectangle, line width=2pt, minimum height=3em, minimum width=3em, outer sep=0pt}} \tikzset{sumcircle/.style={draw, circle, outer sep=0pt, label=center:{{$\sum$}}, minimum width=2em}} \tikzset{every picture/.style={auto, line width=1pt, >=narrow,font=\small}} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \node[block](G1){$G_1$}; \node[block,right=15mm of G1](G2){$G_2$}; \draw[->](G1)--node[above](U){$U$}(G2); \node[block,below=12mm of U](G3){$G_3$}; \node[sumcircle,left=12mm of G1](sum){}; \node[coordinate, left=10mm of sum](ref){}; \draw[->](ref)--node[xshift=-2mm](){$R$}(sum); \draw[->](sum)--node[xshift=-1mm](){$E$}(G1); \node[coordinate, right=12mm of G2](output){}; \draw[->](G2)--node[xshift=0mm](Y){$Y$}(output); \draw[->](Y)|-(G3); \draw[->](G3)-|(sum); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}