On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Andrea L Edwards wrote:
I am trying the "Write DMS" tool for my molecule, and I get an error that says "no molecule for surface". I followed Actions->Surface-
Show then I followed Tools->Structure Editing->Write DMS.
Hi Andrea, From the bug report you also submitted I see that you only have the surfaces open when you do WriteDMS -- you've closed the corresponding structures. Surfaces alone do not have enough information to write a DMS file. The corresponding structure needs to be open so that atom and residue names as well as atom positions can be written into the DMS file. The surface only has surface vertex positions, normals, and colors, which is the bulk of the DMS information but not everything needed. I find that if I open the structure you provided with your bug report, then do Actions->Surface->show, I can then immediately use WriteDMS successfully. Let me know if this isn't the case for you. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu