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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 17:47:54 CST
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Hi,
Sorry for the delayed email response, I'm way behind on answering
recent emails due to trying to get the new version of VMD finished up.
The safest way to get a high quality STL file out of VMD is to:
1) download and install MSMS for your platform. MSMS is a
solvent surface generator which VMD can use to make high quality
surface representations, which also has the added benefit of generating
surfaces that generally don't have self-intersections, which typically
cause trouble with STL export and 3-D printing.
2) load your molecule(s), set the colors and your atom selections, and
then draw them with the MSMS representation (see commentary above)
3) Open the File->Render menu, select "STL", and then export/render
the scene.
You should then have an STL file which you can make 3-D models from.
Note that if you want to print a color model on one of the more advanced
3-D printers, you'll need to use VRML2 or one of the other scene description
formats, as the STL format lacks color information.
Cheers,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:33:56PM +0900, mr.ibid_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello VMD List subscribers,
>
> I apologize if I am polluting your inbox. I would just like to ask if anyone
> can pass on to me the 'how to' kind of instructions an amatuer such as
> myself would need to use VMD to convert image files on the Protein Data Bank
> into STL files? would be much appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards
> Ken Lee
-- NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349 WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
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