Dear Tongqing,

While you cannot save a surface as PDB or mmCIF, there are other file format options for that, like OBJ or STL. See the list of "3D objects" formats supported here:
https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html

Best wishes,

--
Ricardo Diogo Righetto


Em ter., 5 de ago. de 2025 às 18:37, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> escreveu:
Hello,
Sorry no,  PDB and mmcif are atomic coordinate formats.  They do not include surface information.
Best regards,
Elaine
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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 Aug 5, 2025, at 6:50 AM, Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear ChimeraX,
>
> Is there a way to save a surface created by the “surface” command in the PDB or cif format?
>
> Best regards,
>   Tongqing
>   Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.
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> Structural Virology and Vaccinology Section
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