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patch2stl

30 Jul 2008 (Updated 31 Jul 2008)

Export a vertices/faces patch to an STL triangular mesh

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Description

%PATCH2STL Write STL file from patch (vertices/faces) data.
% PATCH2STL('filename',p) writes a stereolithography (STL) file
% for a patch mesh defined by P. P must be a structure with 'VERTICES'
% and 'FACES' fields.
%
% PATCH2STL(...,'mode') may be used to specify the output format.
%
% 'binary' - writes in STL binary format (default)
% 'ascii' - writes in STL ASCII format
%
% Example:
%
% tmpvol = zeros(20,20,20); % Empty voxel volume
% tmpvol(8:12,8:12,5:15) = 1; % Turn some voxels on
% fv = isosurface(tmpvol, 0.99); % Create the patch object
% patch2stl('test.stl',fv) % Save to binary .stl

% Based on surf2stl by Bill McDonald
%
% Author: Sven Holcombe, 07-30-08

This is based heavily on Bill McDonald's previous work, simply enabling his output functions for a different form of input.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
surf2stl

MATLAB release

MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)

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Comments and Ratings (3)
02 Aug 2008	Scott Burnside	Nice companion to cad2matdemo.m. Very useful.
28 Apr 2009	Georg Stillfried	Worked fine!
02 Jul 2009	Holger Roth	Great! That's what I looked for...

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Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
data import	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
data export	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
stl	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
mesh	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
trimesh	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
tri	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
patch	Sven	22 Oct 2008 10:12:38
stl	ben harrison	20 Jul 2009 03:20:13

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