Re: [PyMOL] 3D printing question

2012-06-19 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Darrell, > When using the plugin, I find it useful to use smooth loops and smooth > strands. Unfortunately, the script puts the supporting struts at the > C-alpha positions, not the splined positions that you get with smoothing. > The trick is to "show" a "line" representation of just the C-alp

Re: [PyMOL] 3D printing question

2012-06-18 Thread Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Hi Michael, When I first started 3D printing of macromolecules, I found the Center for BioMolecular Modeling: http://cbm.msoe.edu/ I wrote to them and they gave me a plugin for PyMOL that creates supporting struts between C-alpha atoms automagically. I've been using it for years now. The original

Re: [PyMOL] 3D printing question

2012-06-17 Thread D. Joe
http://interlockroc.org/2012/06/05/3d-insulin-model-printing/ Not included in that article is a thingiverse link to a print of topoisomerase which was pointed out to me. They report using KISSlicer to print the necessary support material. While this insulin model was sufficiently globular to

[PyMOL] 3D printing question

2012-06-17 Thread Michael Lerner
Hi all, I just got a MakerBot Replicator, and I'd obviously like to try my hand at printing 3D models from PyMOL. If anybody else is doing such things, are there any recommendations for the most straightforward way to go from PyMOL to something that repg can read? A lot of the software I'm trying