Hello Diego, Chimera input formats are listed here: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/filetypes.html> I see VTK is included in that list, with description "lines and polygons," so as far as I know if you saved VTK with menu: File... Export Scene (or Chimera "export" command) it should be readable by that same version of Chimera. I am not very familiar with VTK, however, so it's possible that the file that is written contains more things than just the lines and polygons, and maybe that part causes problems. <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/export.html> If you (1) have a recent version of Chimera, and (2) used Chimera export to save the file and you can't open it with the same Chimera, then you could use menu: Help... Report a Bug and attach the file. Include your e-mail address in the bug report if you would like a response about what we find. Thanks, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Mar 24, 2021, at 3:22 PM, Diego Amaya <diaamayaram@unal.edu.co> wrote:
Hello, I exported a surface in VTK format with the chimera extension but I can't open this vtk file back with chimera. This behavior is expected ? Best regards -- Diego A. Amaya RamÃrez