Model3d

MATLAB class for reading, viewing 3D dxf and 3ds files.

Description

This is a MATLAB class that allows the user to read in Autocad (.dxf) and 3D Studio Max (.3ds) files.

The class can be plotted and functions are included for simple model manipulation (translation, rotation, magnification, superposition)

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)
• Other requirements: the file includes compiled MEX functions for Linux and Windows. The source is included so that it can be compiled on other platforms. A version will be uploaded soon that works on MAC platform.

[Christian none]

Sorry, the last entry was a mistake. But this one is what I meant!

[olivier PROT]

Very Nice ! Have some problems with .3ds files but it works well with .dxf.

[Justin Barnes]

Worked great for me on 3ds but had dxf trouble

[Nory chemii]

My friend introduced me to MATLAB when i search software for make 3D graphics with 3 values of X, Y and Z. I hope i can use MATLAB

[Lijun Yan]

  thank you for your share, but there is nothing in model3d.m

[Scott B.]

Sorry but for me this code was unreliable for dxf files produced by any version of autocad. I like the fancy class wrapper but you might want to reconsider your claims for dxf files. I'll revisit this and upgrade my review if you can sort out the dxf problems.

[Paul Foxgrover]

Very helpful. Works Great!
Thanks!

[Gayathri]

The code produced a model3d object, but was not able to plot it as it gave an error saying that the alpha value must be within 0 and 1.
A sample 3ds file that worked for the author could have been better to evaluate the functioning of this code.
A better readme would have been nice.

[Jon Beich]

Model.m file is only remarks... can't use anything else without the model

[Bhavik]

I am beginner in MATLAB please tell me how to run this file..

[Nikhil K]

Very nice. Worked right away with just two lines of code and a 3DS model. Is there existing/planned support for animation, i.e. frames?

[Paul Foxgrover]

Upgraded to 2008b and it stopped working. Couldn't fix it myself. Please update and I will change my rating.

[Srimal Jayawardena]

Hi

Thanks for the great model3d script .

However, it behaves strangely for certain 3ds files.

For example, the following maxda3 3ds model purchased from,

http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_details.aspx?id_product=14495

was rendered as shown in

http://srimal-techdiary.blogspot.com/2010/03/misaligned-3ds-model-rendered-with.html

(Note: the wheels and fenders are in the wrong place)

It renders correctly in 3D MAX.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance

Srimal.

[Srimal Jayawardena]

This is the link to the screenshot.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XThHJOc8NjU/S6hDEmyBtaI/AAAAAAAAFu4/v1tvbCMsj1M/s1600-h/maxda3_3ds.png

Thanks

Srimal

[Greg]

This code uses old-style (pre-2008a, I believe) object-oriented programming. As far as I can tell, that makes it pretty much non-functional in any newer version of Matlab.

[John D'Errico]

greg is wrong here. The old style OOP methods still work nicely in current matlab releases.

[Markus]

It is working nicely. But I have problems to run the rotation by using qrot(m,pi/2,pi/2). Or even if I load the qrot3d function from the file exchange it didn't work out. Does anybody have experience with this functions or can give me a hint how to use. Thanks a lot.

[Jonatan Olofsson]

Here is what I changed in the makefile to get the compilation working on Linux64; The first rows in the makefile now looks as follows:
TARGET = ../model3d.mexa64
TARGET2 = ../serialize.mexa64
SOURCES = dxf.cpp mexfunction.cpp model3d.cpp c3ds.cpp
MATDIR = /opt/matlab
#CXX = icpc
#CXXFLAGS = -gcc-version=320 -cxxlib-gcc=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.3 -O3 -xN -w1
#CXX = /usr/local/gcc-3.2.3/bin/g++
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -O3 -Wall -fPIC
LIBDIR = -L$(MATDIR)/bin/glnxa64

Note that you probably should adjust the matlab path.

Also, "int dims[3];" should be changed to "mwSize dims[3];" to make it compile.

Best Regards,
Jonatan Olofsson

[Jonatan Olofsson]

"Also, "int dims[3];" should be changed to "mwSize dims[3];" to make it compile."

- In the mexfunction.cpp, row 211, that is

[Grant Lohsen]

I can't get this to run on windows. I get the error "??? Undefined function or method 'model3d' for input arguments of type 'char'". I noticed that this includes .mexglx files, and i believe this is linux files. Does anyone have the mexw64 files so I can run this? alternatively, is there a free compiler I can put on my system to compile this?

Matlab R2008b

[Jonas]

 

[Bruno]

in Matlab r2011b I try to excecute the command but I receive this error:
"Error using class
The CLASS function must be called from a class constructor." I guess I have to recompile it... Isn't it? How can I do it? Thank you very much!