Many thanks Bob, that's another very useful addition to what is already an
enormous feature set.
Mike
Dr Mike Casey
School of Chemistry
UCD
Dublin
01 716 2420
On 3 October 2016 at 06:14, Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu> wrote:
> Jmol users,
>
> I finally took a look at how 3D printer formats WRL and STL work and what
> it would take to get them working in Jmol. It turns out, not too much! The
> key with WRL is to not use high-level objects such as built-in standard
> VRML 2.0 Cone, Cylinder, and Sphere nodes. Once those were dispensed with,
> it was simple enough to implement both STL binary (Jmol default) and STL
> ASCII (*set debug TRUE*) options. So, Jmol now can be used to produce
> color (WRL) or monochrome (STL) 3D printer input files.
>
> (Note that *write xxx.STL *is only implement in the Java version of Jmol
> in this release. The next release will also implement it in JSmol/HTML5,
> but I'm not sure that would be recommended anyway; these files can get very
> very large, and it is not clear that that they can be successfully
> delivered in JavaScript.)
>
>
> A few additional bug fixes, and it seemed appropriate to go to a new
> subversion, 14.6.4.
>
> Bob
>
>
> new feature: 3DPrinter-compatible VRML and STL writing.
> -- mesh only; does not use high-level objects Cone, Cylinder, Sphere
> -- extensive use of D EF and USE for small-footprint VMRL files
> -- STL is binary generally, but will be ASCII using SET DEBUG TRUE
> -- write t.wrl
> -- write t.stl
>
> bug fix: COD CIF files have mixed-lower case atom labels (H5a) in bonds
> def, causing Jmol to miss bonds.
> bug fix: rogue System.out.println for text rendering.
> bug fix: print compare({1.1}, {2.1}, "MAP", "H") broken in
> 14.6.0_2016.06.14
> bug fix: Google Closure Compiler not set up for UTF-8 encoded language
> class, used in pop-up menu.
>
>
>
> --
> Robert M. Hanson
> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
> St. Olaf College
> Northfield, MN
> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>
>
> If nature does not answer first what we want,
> it is better to take what answer we get.
>
> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>
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