How to Create faces from Vertex [X Y Z] co-ordiante for STL write ? without inbuilt STL command?

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How to Create faces from Vertex [X Y Z] co-ordiante for STL write ? without inbuilt STL command?

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KSSV
KSSV on 29 Apr 2019
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Selva Karna
Selva Karna on 30 Apr 2019
KSSV Thanks for reply. i did't looking for MATLAB inbuild commands, for Faces Creation from x y z , hard code of MATLAB i expecting can you sir any code?
This code not cleare to create Faces from x y z???
https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/20922-stlwrite-write-ascii-or-binary-stl-files
raouf takab
raouf takab on 25 Jul 2019
Edited: raouf takab on 25 Jul 2019
Answer by RiK:
An stl file has two parts. One part contains triplets of vertex IDs, and the other part contains the xyz coordinates of each vertex. The triplets tell you the three corners of a face of your mesh.
In principle there can be more than three IDs, but triangular meshes are the most usual.
The data you have seems to only be the faces array, although maybe the vertices array is hidden in the last part of your array.
Also, the faces array describes the vertices, not the normal vector of that face.

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