MATLAB: Vectorising a Meshgrid Coordinate Construction

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I have three coordinate arrays (file attached) of size [M x 2], where M is the number of elements and the 2 represents different points in a 1D system. To find the 3D meshed coordinates upon which I perform calculations I use code of the form:
for ele = 1:size(X_co,1) %Loop Over Each Element
    [X_cube,Y_cube,Z_cube] = meshgrid(X_co(ele,:),Y_co(ele,:),Z_co(ele,:)); %Construct Meshgrid of size [2x2x2] for an Element
    X_save(:,:,:,element) = X_cube; %Save Coordinates
    Y_save(:,:,:,element) = Y_cube;
    Z_save(:,:,:,element) = Z_cube;    
end
The solution then is of size [2x2x2xM]. My best attempt to vectorise this was:
[X_cube,Y_cube,Z_cube] = meshgrid(X_co,Y_co,Z_co);  
X_save = reshape(X_cube,2,2,2,[]); Y_save = reshape(Y_cube,2,2,2,[]);  Z_save = reshape(Z_cube,2,2,2,[]);
However this solution is of size [2x2x2x(M^3)] which, when plotting both solutions has many many many repeated points so doesn't actually work for my application.
Can this problem be vectorised, or is a for loop the best way to construct this coordinate array?

Best Answer

One way
[~,nx] = size(X_co);
[~,ny] = size(Y_co);
[m,nz] = size(Z_co);
[NX,NY,NZ] = meshgrid(1:nx,1:ny,1:nz);
sz = [size(NX),m];
% if you know nx, ny, nz are 2 you can replace the 5 above commands by
% [NX,NY,NZ] = meshgrid(1:2);
% sz = [2,2,2,m];
X_save = X_co.';
Y_save = Y_co.';
Z_save = Z_co.';
X_save = reshape(X_save(NX,:),sz);
Y_save = reshape(Y_save(NY,:),sz);
Z_save = reshape(Z_save(NZ,:),sz);
Note: I honestly prefer your for-loop if you add a preallocation
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