How to utilize nodes to plot a 3D object?

Hi there. I am making a script that will load nodes from a .dat file, and plot out the values to make the shape of a 3D object.

Here is my current script:

clear 
clc

load('F15.dat', 'node')

node = struct('ID', 0, 'fn', 0, 'sn', 0, 'tn', 0);
node.ID = 1;
node.fn = 0;
node.sn = 0;
node.tn = 0;
node = [n;3];

face = struct('ID', 0, 'fn', 0, 'sn', 0, 'tn', 0);
face.ID = 1;
face.fn = 0;
face.sn = 0;
face.tn = 0;
face = [n;3]

   patch('Faces', F, 'Vertices', V, ...          
       'FaceColor', [1 1 0], ...          
       'FaceLighting', 'gouraud', ...           
       'FaceAlpha', 1, ...           
       'EdgeColor', 'none', ...          
       'EdgeLighting', 'gouraud', ...          
       'EdgeAlpha', 1, ...          
       'AmbientStrength', 0.3);    
   camlight headlight    
   material shiny    
   axis image    
   axis off    
   view(50,20);

It is also said that I need to store the three coordinates of all nodes, and their IDs, in two separate matrixes with a parameter of [n * 3]. The .dat file has the node, face, and bar values, but I only need to use the nodes and face types.

This is what I have so far, but I am getting an error that says the first text in the .dat file is unknown and can't be used. Can anyone help? Here is also an attached excerpt regarding the storing of data in the matrix.

Answer 1

[kowshik Thopalli]

Ok. I have attached the script to do this. You are reading the data wrong. I have also attached the image. Hope this helps.