Hello: I've made a Chimera section which I would like to share with somebody else. However, I don't want the PDB within Chimera section to be exported by others. Is it possible for us to export some special file format so that other users can only visualize my file, but they cannot edit or export file into PDB coordinate? Thanks a lot Albert
Hi Albert, Look at the File->Export Scene menu. That allows you to export to various file formats that your recipient may be able to view without any easy ability to save the result as a PDB file. In particular the “WebGL” export can be viewed as a web page in most modern browsers, with the ability to manipulate the structure interactively. —Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
On Oct 16, 2015, at 6:41 AM, Albert <mailmd2011@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello:
I've made a Chimera section which I would like to share with somebody else. However, I don't want the PDB within Chimera section to be exported by others. Is it possible for us to export some special file format so that other users can only visualize my file, but they cannot edit or export file into PDB coordinate?
Thanks a lot
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Hi Albert, The common approach to this is to provide a movie spinning the model around. That isn’t as flexible for the viewer as using interactive 3d graphics, but the only 3d graphics viewer that everyone is likely to have is a web browser, and the WebGL export from Chimera is just a prototype (e.g. doesn’t handle transparency or lighting on mesh surfaces and other things). Also if you were really concerned about someone getting your coordinates, those can be extracted from any 3d format including WebGL by someone dedicated willing to spend a day. Probably that is safe enough and we hope to have WebGL output working in all cases in Chimera 2. Tom
On Oct 16, 2015, at 6:41 AM, Albert wrote:
Hello:
I've made a Chimera section which I would like to share with somebody else. However, I don't want the PDB within Chimera section to be exported by others. Is it possible for us to export some special file format so that other users can only visualize my file, but they cannot edit or export file into PDB coordinate?
Thanks a lot
Albert _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
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