Displaying STL file with colored facets

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I have an STL file of a part for 3D printing, for each facet I had calculated the surface roughness.How to display the STL file with the facets colored according to the value of its specific surface roughness? I want to get something like that

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Ahmet Cecen
Ahmet Cecen on 6 Mar 2016
p = patch('faces',F,'vertices',V,'FaceColor',[0.8 0.8 1.0],'FaceLighting','gouraud');
Pass the surface roughness vector as the argument to the 'FaceColor' option.
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Mohammad Ismail
Mohammad Ismail on 8 Dec 2017
Hi I want to import complext geometry from solid work the command readstl did not work. Could you please help me in that
Sleh Eddine Brika
Sleh Eddine Brika on 8 Dec 2017
Edited: Sleh Eddine Brika on 8 Dec 2017
Hi, it worked perfectly for me and I tried it with several complex parts. Maybe be you can try this function https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22409-stl-file-reader. And if you still have problems, you may try importing your CAD in IGES format using this function https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13253-iges-toolbox Could you please put your code.

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