how to export a 2D figure into a cad

Thank you for your attention.

I've written a Random Sequential Adsorption alghoritm that generates random 2D rectangular fibers into a prescribed domain. Basically I have a square (the domain) and a certain number of rectangles inside.

What I have as outputs are the figure that represents the situation abowe descriped (see the figure abowe), and an Excel file with nrows (n is the total number of rectangles), and each row has 8 components (the x-y coordinates of the vertices of the rectangles in anticlockwise direction).

I need to study the generated structure with Abaqus, and so I need to convert what I have into a 2D cad ( Solidworkd, Inventor, Autocad, they are all good).

Is there a way? It would be much easier to convert the plotted figure, but in case I can also use the excel file.

Regards

Federico

[darova]

Is this correct? YOu are trying to export this surface? Or just many rectangles?

[Federico De Bianchi]

yes it is, I'm trying to export this surface as well as 5 others. What changes is the number of the fibers (rectangle), but the pattern is the same.

It is a rappresentation, at a microstructure level, of a layer of a composite material with random short carbon fibers. The matlab script is needed to get teh random distribution of fibers

Answer 1

[darova]

See attached script

But don't know how to deal with overlapping

Use stlwrite to write mesh to file