Patch to Surf Conversion

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Jonathan Bird
Jonathan Bird on 23 Apr 2018
Answered: DGM on 7 Oct 2025 at 14:08
We have the following code defining a pair of wings using the patch function. We are trying to convert the .m file to an .stl file however the surf2stl will not work as the wings are not defined using the surf function. Is there any way to resolve this? Thanks.
figure(1)
v = [0 -15 60; 0 -15 57; 75 -10 60; 75 -10 57; 78 5 60; 78 5 57; 0 0 60 ; 0 0 57; -78 5 60; -78 5 57; -75 -10 60; -75 -10 57];
f = [1 2 4 3; 3 4 6 5; 5 6 8 7; 7 8 10 9; 9 10 12 11; 11 12 2 1;7 1 3 5; 9 11 1 7; 2 4 6 8; 2 8 10 12];
wing = patch('Faces',f,'Vertices',v,'FaceAlpha',1,'FaceColor','green');
axis equal

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KSSV
KSSV on 23 Apr 2018
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DGM
DGM on 5 Jul 2025
After R2018b, MATLAB has STL tools in the base toolbox:
Prior to R2018b, I'd agree with the recommendation of FEX #20922

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DGM
DGM on 7 Oct 2025 at 14:08

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