Getting point cloud directly from a 3D CAD STL Model in Matlab

I have a 3-D CAD STL Model, which I have to convert into a point cloud. After that this point cloud is used by me as a input for furthur work. The resultant point cloud can be considered equivalent to a point cloud output from a Laser Scan/CMM of the object. No mesh generation is neeeded . pl, help me regarding this

Answer 1

[sina Ebrahimi Farsangi]

Hi Mandeep . Did u find an answer to your question. I have the same problem...

[darova]

Use stlread

fv = stlread('file.stl')
fv.vertices

[Mandeep Dhanda]

Thanks@ sina Ebrahimi Farsangi, I got the answer long back, anyway Thanks for your reply.

Answer 2

[Meg Noah]

There is a program on matlab central that returns the coordinates x,y,z that are the point cloud

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/79191-stlgeneralaccess?s_tid=srchtitle