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Article #187Re: 3D solid objects dumped as a set of x, y, z carthesian coordinates
From: Ranny Meier
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:00
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Hi Yegor, It sounds like an interesting project. We have been working with the SolidWorks API programming interface to make various utilities. I think it is possible to create the definition that you have described. Other possibilities are to export the model to an SLA (StereoLithography) model or to a faceted representation (collection of triangular surfaces with outward normals). In either case we can determine if any coordinate is either inside or outside of the volume. Of course there are an infinite number of points inside the volume. I am guessing that the MatLab program will use some array of points at a specified spacing. I do not know if the points need to be mapped to some shape however. Please email me directly at Ranny@RespMech.com if you want to discuss it further. Thanks, Ranny YDS <yegor@rmthisgrn.com> wrote in message news:7vc8iq$d4s$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net... > Hello. > > I need to create the 3D objects composed of solid parts. For each solid part I > have to create an array of points with its Cartesian coordinates and feed it to > a matlab simulation software, that calculates the magnetic resonance images for > me. So the essential information that I am interested in is x, y, z coordinates > of those points that fall within the range of certain solid features of given 3D > object. I need the points and their coordinates inside the solid part, not only > at the surfaces. I tried Solid Works and AutoCAD, but it does not appear to be > easy there. I wonder if the list would have any suggestions on what 3D > descriptive software can be applicable to this task? > > Thank you. > > Yegor >
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