Read STL FILE on MATLAB

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Huijuan Zhu
Huijuan Zhu on 30 Dec 2020
Answered: serhat YILDIZHAN on 19 Jun 2021
Hello, I am doing my school project and have encountered this problem of reading STL file on MATLAB. The STL file has 7706 KB, i am trying to reduce the patch/mesh but I couldn't move on without reading the STL file on matlab first. Please help me out. Thank you very much.

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Ameer Hamza
Ameer Hamza on 30 Dec 2020
No, this is not how a function is called in MATLAB. Read here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-functions-in-files.html. You cannot pass input when declaring the function. Which means that first line should be like this
function [coordinates] = stlread(filename)
..
..
fid = fopen(filename);
end
After declaring the function, you can call it like this
stlread('test.stl')
So your file should be like this
clear; % don't use clear all
clc;
coordinates = stlread('test.stl')
function [coordinates] = stlread(filename)
..
..
fid = fopen(filename);
end
and then run the script.
Note that from R2018b, MATLAB also have its own stlread() function. You can also use that.
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Huijuan Zhu
Huijuan Zhu on 30 Dec 2020
Nicee, thank you very much, I will try that :)

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serhat YILDIZHAN
serhat YILDIZHAN on 19 Jun 2021
hi, i want to open my stl file in axes1, but i am getting error. Can you help me?

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