[Grateful Frog <gratefulfrog@gm...>]

Hi Marcelo,

Thanks for your help and suggestion!

I did that and the surface is much nicer.

However, the Pymol rendering in VRML still won't load to Shapeways without
error.

I have to re-render in VRML in MeshLab.

My goal is to do it all in Pymol.

Any more ideas would be great!

Ciao,
Bob


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Marcelo Marcet <MMARCET@...> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Before you save your file from pymol try increasing the quality to max,
> then save as VRML. This increases the number of polygons in the file and
> after exporting from meshlab the final molecule will look a lot smoother.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcelo
>
> On May 2, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Grateful Frog <gratefulfrog@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to this list and to this tool.  I have encountered a problem
> with exporting as wrl in pylolk 1.7 that I compiled on my Ubuntu 12.04
> platform.
> >
> > I load a PDB file and it displays fine.
> >
> > I then type the command "show surface" and this works fine, too.
> >
> > I then save image as VRML 2, and write the file to disk.
> >
> > This file can be visualized fine in MeshLab.
> >
> > However, it cannot be 3D printed at Shapeways. The error message does
> not say what is wrong.
> >
> > The work-around that I have found is to open the wrl file, generated by
> Pymol, in Meshlab and re-save another copy as wrl, but generated by
> Meshlab. This new file can be 3D printed at Shapeways.
> >
> > However, the look of the surface is not as nice when it comes out of
> Meshlab, as it is in Pymol...
> >
> > Any thoughts would be great!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> >
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