Bezier surface to CAD program

Hi all,

I would very much like to export a Bezier surface which I had created in MATLAB to a CAD program, preffirabily Solidworks.

Looking around, it seems to me that this task is not as trivial as one would suspect. I was looking into IGES format which seems to work with B-Splines rather than Bezier.

The Bezier surface is currently of degree mxn, but I can limit it to bi-cubic if the solution demands.

I would very much appreicaite guidance on this issue.

The project I am working on aims to help create prosthetics from scanned limbs.

Thanks,

Alon

Answer 1

[Unai San Miguel]

With the Nurbs2IGES toolbox found in MATLAB File Exchange https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12087-nurbs2iges

there are functions provided to export your surface to IGES. I don't think that you will need to change the order or the degree of the surface, and remember that a Bezier surface is a B-spline surface with knot vectors [0,...0,1,...,1] in the two parametric directions.