[PyMOL] Accessing vertex normals from surface representation within PyMOL session

[Jared S. <jar...@co...>]

Hi all -

Is it possible to access surface triangle mesh position and normal values on a per-selection basis within a PyMOL session?  I know it's possible to get these by writing out and parsing .obj files, but to do this for an entire protein surface in a per-atom/residue fashion would be inefficient.  I imagine there must be a function to access this similar to "dump" for isosurfaces, but haven't been able to find it.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Jared