<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tom,</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like that does the trick. Thanks a lot!</div><div><br></div><div>In 3D printing, one could fill the entire internal space with printing material, </div><div>but typically one just fills the empty space only with some kind of lattice framework,</div><div>while printing multiple layers of material for the walls of the outer surface to ensure durability.</div><div><br></div><div>If there are structural features *inside*, it seems that there is no way for 3D model slicing softwares to distinguish this reliably (at least I couldn't find one), and they create multiple layers of 'walls' inside as well, ending up wasting time and material. To illustrate the difference, I attach a screenshot of a slicing software (called Ultimaker Cura) where I show a cross section of two copies of the same protein model, one with the trick applied (left) and one without it (right).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Sungwook</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 3:14 AM Tom Goddard <<a href="mailto:goddard@sonic.net">goddard@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi Sungwook,<div><br></div><div> You can avoid the internal surface bubbles in ChimeraX using the surface command "visiblePatches 1" option,</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>open 7exf</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>surface #1 visiblePatches 1</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>save 7exf_chain_A.stl model #1.2</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Tom</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 5, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Sungwook Woo via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>I've been using UCSF Chimera and recently encountered ChimeraX -- I really like the modern look and feel!</div><div><br></div><div>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">MSMS surface model,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap">where I was able to disable (make 'false') the 'show disjoint surfaces' setting, in the original version.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><font color="#ffffff" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#ffffff;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">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" target="_blank">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"> waste printing material and increase printing time.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Is there any way to disable showing disjoint surfaces, or otherwise achieve a similar goal in the X version?</div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Sungwook</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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