How can I calculate a Drone Projected Area?

Hey

I'm searching for a way to calculating the projected area of a drone (I have the 3D file) for some inclination angles. I´m looking for a way to rotate it without having to generate a XML file for each inclination, and also a command to calculate its projected area in a plane.

I would appreciate if anyone could help me.

Best regards

[darova]

Can you make a simple drawing of the result you expect?

[José Correia]

Its basically this, I want to measure the projected area of the drone for different inclination angles, but I want to do it in a more automatic way, so I dont need to repeat this process in Inventor of changing the plane with an increment of 1º. Is there a way to do samoething like this in MATLAB? (Even if it involves changing the plane for each increment, I think it should be faster than Inventor).

Answer 1

[darova]

here is an idea

• save your 3D model as .stl
• use stlread to import it into MATLAB
• create an image of your model: LINK
• binarize the image
• count pixels (remember about scale)

[José Correia]

Yes, that part of importing the 3D model do MATLAB works fine, but now i'm having trouble rotating the triplot. Do you have any idea how can I do it?