SGreadSTL
by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - Import/Export
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 3.1, Creation date: 2016-12-18, Last change: 2025-09-14
reads in an SG from an STL File
Description
reads also Colors and Alpha Value since SG 4.5
SG.VL - vertices
SG.FL - Faces
SG.col - global color value; used only if there is no field .FC
SG.aplha - alpha value
SG.FC - Face colors
reads also Frames and Framenames since SG 5.0
supports also spational relations since SG 5.4
See Also: SGreadSTL
, SGwriteSTL
, VLFLreadSTL
, VLFLwriteSTL
, STLAsctoBin
, SGN2SGT
, SGT2SGN
, stldir
Example Illustration
Syntax
[SG,H,AbC,FName]=SGreadSTL([FName,mag,rel])
Input Parameter
FName: | | File Name |
mag: | | optional magnification value |
rel: | | spatial relations and modifications by SGtransrelSG such as 'shrink','150 |
Output Parameter
SG: | | Solid Geometry |
H: | | header string 80 chars |
AbC: | | Attribute by Count per facet uint16(n), SG.FC=bgr162rgb(AbC); |
FName: | | FileName |
Examples
Read the STL-File of a current SimMechanics Block
SG=SGreadSTL(get_param(gcb,'ExtGeomFileName'))
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