Dear Jana, Probably the limitations for exporting the scene in STL are the same in ChimeraX as in the documentation for Chimera, namely "Only what is displayed will be exported. Note that something can be displayed yet invisible due to clipping or zoning, or because it simply falls outside the current view." <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/export.html> ...i.e. clipping or zoning does not really remove the parts from the model, it just makes them invisible, but as you reported, they will still be included in the exported file. I need to doublecheck with the other developers that this applies to ChimeraX similarly as in Chimera before I update the ChimeraX documentation, but I believe that is the issue. I don't know of a workaround. Sorry about that. Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Feb 23, 2024, at 2:38 PM, Jana Villemain via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Greetings,
I have downloaded the attached .pdb. Also attached is a screenshot of same model, but sliced specifically at histidine 65. I need to export the edited file, sliced, as an .stl so that I can print it. However, try as I might, every time I save, or export the file, it is unedited – and includes the entire model. Any help you could provide would be great!
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Thank you,
Jana