3D plot confusion

I am working on a project of 3D plots, and on objective is to create a UFO spaceship that has a curved shape that resembles a conical shape, but also has couple of equally-spaced square windows on its sides as shown on the uploaded photo. I have managed to create the shape neglecting the windows by first finding the function that the curve of the surface follows on the side view, creating a thin outer layer of the surface with the function 'cylinder' ([x y z] = cylinder(function of side curve), then defining the z values for different layers of the cylindrical shape). The issues I am now facing are:

1. How can I make square holes on the position of the windows?

2. How can I "fill" the interior of the spaceship with a solid surface as it normally is rather than an empty space?

Answer 1

[Wick]

Assuming you're making the exterior of the ship from mesh or surface commands. Those commands will connect dots and make patches between vertices in their regular pattern unless it's a NaN. You can make selected values of any of the X, Y, or Z values equal to NaN and the won't be included in the surfaces.

I don't know of any solid plotting options in MATLAB. Everything is surfaces. You're just going to have to add a surface inside the UFO's windows to represent the interior of the UFO.

It might just be easier to define the patches where the windows are as a different color rather than trying to cut them out of the shape.