Hi Kevin, Please direct questions about ChimeraX to our mailing list, chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> — others on the team or even in the community may have more experience or more recent experience in a given subject than I or any other developer has at the moment. Eric (CC’ed) has been working on the NIH 3D pipeline; part of that pipeline is adding struts to delicate objects for 3D printing. He may be able to help you better than I can. — Zach
On 26 Jun 2024, at 14:55, Maroney, Kevin James <kmaroney@uab.edu> wrote:
Hello Dr. Pearson, Despite doing more Immunology research and really no proteomics, I have had a hobby interest in fooling around with Pymol and ChimeraX. I just recently got a very nice 3D Printer and was hoping to print out a model of the epitope of my PhD complexed between HLA-B57 and TCR that is publically available. I was going to use UCSF Chimera, but it does not seem like it is capable of representing space-filling diagrams and only gives me errors. I obviously can’t print the complex and delicate ribbon or atomic representations and like ChimeraX better anyway. But the guide from the NIH suggests passing PDB models through Chimera to generate .stl files which I can easily then pop into my Studio software to 3D print and resize etc. Problem is, I don’t see that there is any way to actually export as .stl in ChimeraX. Is there any way you could add this feature? Thank you very much. Lovely program.
Sincerely, Kevin Maroney M.S. Biotechnology University of California, Irvine PhD Student University of Alabama at Birmingham
