<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Sungwook,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> You can avoid the internal surface bubbles in ChimeraX using the surface command "visiblePatches 1" option,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>open 7exf</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>surface #1 visiblePatches 1</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>save 7exf_chain_A.stl model #1.2</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don't see how this saves material when making a 3D print since the print will be solid if there are no interior bubbles. But I agree it will print faster on a filament printer since the toolpaths will be simpler since there are no holes to dodge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 5, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Sungwook Woo via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've been using UCSF Chimera and recently encountered ChimeraX -- I really like the modern look and feel!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One feature I cannot find in the X version, though, is editing the attributes of an <span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap" class="">MSMS surface model,</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap" class="">where I was able to disable (make 'false') the 'show disjoint surfaces' setting, in the original version.</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#ffffff" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#ffffff;" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Most of the time dealing with models I don't need it, but sometimes I like to 3D print molecular models to really get a 'grip' on the models, and that feature of not showing disjoint surfaces has been useful to remove internal 'bubbles', which </span></font>I learned about through this posting: <a href="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-May/003903.html" class="">https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2009-May/003903.html</a> . If internal bubbles are not removed, they<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:var(--darkreader-inline-color)" class=""> waste printing material and increase printing time.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there any way to disable showing disjoint surfaces, or otherwise achieve a similar goal in the X version?</div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Sungwook</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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