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评论： Cris LaPierre 2019-10-18

Hello!

I have an STL file which contains the facets and vertices. My concern is about the way the facets are saved because I have noticed that the facets don't seem to have any common nodes with each other which is not obvious for me, so it would be very much appreciated if anyone can tell if this is normal or I am having some problem in my file!

Note: I have attached a screenshot of the STL file

Thank you and best regards!

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KSSV 2018-12-4

编辑：KSSV 2018-12-4

Attach your file.....the faces/ triangles should be sharing nodes.

Ano 2018-12-4

Thank you for you reply.

yes I agree that they should by they are not sharing nodes and the model seems to be correct!

Any ideas?!

Note: Please find attached the STL file and the facets and the nodes .

Thank you and best regards!

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Cris LaPierre 2018-12-5

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编辑：Cris LaPierre 2018-12-5

在 MATLAB Online 中打开

How are you reading the file into MATLAB? If I follow the example on the stlread documentation, I can import and plot the mesh.

data = stlread('femur.stl');
trimesh(data,'FaceColor','none','EdgeColor','k')

The interesting thing is the numbers from the various files are different.

stlread imports 33332x3 points and 66670x3 ConnectivityList
Your screenshot shows the values similar to what I see in ConnectivityList, but 178726x3 of them.
fv contains 66674x3 faces and 200022x3 vertices. How were faces and vertices created?

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Cris LaPierre 2018-12-5

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在 MATLAB Online 中打开

About the connections - they are there. If I look at data.ConnectivityList for femur.stl, I can see that the first face (line 1) contains points 1, 2 and 3. The 6th face, made up of points 1, 9 and 2, shares the line between points 1 and 2 with face 1.

By combining information from data.Points and data.ConnectivityList, you can recreate the mesh yourself using plot3. Note that this is very slow, so it it much quicker to use plotting functions designed for this (trimesh, triplot)

To avoid getting extraneous lines as the ConnectivityList jumps around, you need to plot each face one by one. For triangles, that means we need 4 points to close them off. Copying the 1st column to the 4th column accomplishes this.

data.ConnectivityList(:,[1:3 1])

We now have the node indices, but we need the X,Y and Z data. Combine node indices with data.Points to get that. Even though you pass in a nx3, the output is a 3*nx1. Because MATLAB uses column major order, to keep the nodes of a face together, we want to transpose data.ConnectivityList.

data.Points(data.ConnectivityList(:,[1:3 1])',:)

Finally, MATLAB plots each column as a single series. We want to plot faces, so we use reshape to place the 4 points of each face in its own column. We can also extract the X,Y and Z points at the same time

X = reshape(data.Points(data.ConnectivityList(:,[1:3 1])',1),4,[]);
Y = reshape(data.Points(data.ConnectivityList(:,[1:3 1])',2),4,[]);
Z = reshape(data.Points(data.ConnectivityList(:,[1:3 1])',3),4,[]);

So now if we plot the first 10 faces, we should see the faces lining up.

Poornima Jayamani 2019-10-15

Hi, Cris your suggestions worked well in my case. i am trying to calculate the volume of a triangular meshed left atrium using divergence theorem. However, when i try to iterate through 1 to number of triangles , the loop picking the same point as a first and third point after 16th iteration . i am not sure what could be wrong with my code.

Cris LaPierre 2019-10-18

Hard to say without seeing your file, but it sounds like you might need to clean up your stl file first. How was it generated?

Consider checking to see if the file is 3D printable. Also consider running it through an stl repair routine (many available online) just in case.

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