External Meshes
Another way of creating a usable solid is to read in a external mesh file. Mesh files contain a 3-dimensional object in form of a triangulated surface. The common file formats stl, ply and 3mf are supported for inserting.
A mesh file is included via the mesh constructor of the solid data type. This receives a string as argument that holds a valid path to the mesh file:
Example
solid m = mesh( "myfiles/figure.stl" )
make m
Mesh model of the author (low quality scan).
When reading from ply or 3mf files, the mesh can also have colors.
Note
In addition of being a constructor for the solid data type, the mesh command can be used like a data type of its own, e.g. mesh m. This optional usage is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
