patch2STL

Below is a demonstration of the features of the patch2STL function

Contents

clear all; close all; clc;

Plot settings

fig_color='w'; fig_colordef='white';
edgeColor1='none';
edgeColor2='none';

Get patch data

[F,V]=stanford_bunny;

Plotting the model

figuremax(fig_color,fig_colordef);
xlabel('X');ylabel('Y'); zlabel('Z'); hold on;

patch('Faces',F,'Vertices',V,'FaceColor','b','EdgeColor','k','FaceAlpha',1);

view(3); axis equal; axis tight; axis vis3d; grid on;
camlight('headlight');
lighting phong; axis off;
drawnow;

Exporting an STL file from patch data

%Set main folder and fileName
defaultFolder = fileparts(mfilename('fullpath'));
pathName=fullfile(defaultFolder,'data','STL');
fileName=fullfile(pathName,'standford_bunny.stl');

patch2STL(fileName,V,F,[],'standford_bunny');

GIBBON

Kevin M. Moerman (kevinmoerman@hotmail.com)