Every opened model in Chimera has an ‘openedAs’ attribute which is either None or a 4-tuple. For models that were directly opened from a single file on the file system (rather than fetched to a file for instance), openedAs will be a tuple whose first component is the full path to that file. If you need more that that (e.g. fetched files too, which is more complicated), let me know and I can provide those details.

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Apr 10, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Ricardo Avila <ravila@protonmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to write an extension for a tool that requires PDB files or MRC structures as input. I would like to be able to pass the model or volume that is currently loaded in Chimera to this separate executable, but for this I need to get the file path to the model's object. Is this possible to do from the Python API?

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo Avila
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