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<div>I'm with the team at NIH. Just a quick note that Chimera exports X3D files, and we provide those for download as well. X3D are typically 1/5th the size of an STL, and you can use them with Cura, or any software based on the Cura slicing engine. </div>
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On Sep 22, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Healey, Joe <<a href="mailto:J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk">J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>That's a great little resource, thanks very much! The structures I'm dealing with don't play nicely with the default surface parameters, so the grid size has done wonders.</p>
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<p>Out of interest, what sort of size would you consider reasonable for printing of a large viral assembly if you were doing the printing? The models currently have about a million and a half atoms, and the STL files are coming out at a few GB at present (hence
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<b>Sent:</b> 22 September 2017 14:33:23<br>
<b>To:</b> Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E]; Healey, Joe; David Bhella<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Joe and David<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you want to reduce the mesh density of a Chimera model before export, use the following two methods. These are much more elegant than mesh reduction after export, which can introduce errors. You can read our molecular 3D printing protocol
in JoVE for detailed instructions of model generation and printing:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.jove.com/video/55427/3d-printing-of-biomolecular-models-for-research-and-pedagogy">https://www.jove.com/video/55427/3d-printing-of-biomolecular-models-for-research-and-pedagogy</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ribbon models<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Open Tools>depiction>ribbon style editor<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Select the ‘cross section’ tab<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Change the ribbon cross section to something simpler. You may draw a square, octagon or (a good balance) hexadecagon. Drawing the shapes can be a little tricky, but the results are
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5">Instead of using the surface command from the menus, enter the following command in the command line” where ‘#0’ is the model number, and ‘0.5’ is the grid resolution in angstroms.
Higher grid values give less detailed meshes<o:p></o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Hurt, Darrell (NIH/NIAID) [E] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 22, 2017 6:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Healey, Joe <<a href="mailto:J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk">J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk</a>>; David Bhella <<a href="mailto:David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk">David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> NIH 3D Print Exchange <<a href="mailto:3Dprint@nih.gov">3Dprint@nih.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Chimera-users] STL File export size<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Joe and David,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I encourage you to consider the NIH 3D Print Exchange (cc’d) as a place to easily create 3D-printable models of proteins of any size or complexity. We use Chimera as part of our toolchain, so the models will look familiar to you. Check
out the “Submit” function of the website to upload a PDB file and get a model in return. Or simply type in a PDB accession code for your model in the “Quick Submit” box to generate a model.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://3dprint.nih.gov">https://3dprint.nih.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full disclosure: I lead the team that maintains the Exchange.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Darrell<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Healey, Joe" <<a href="mailto:J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk">J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, September 22, 2017 at 6:40 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>David Bhella <<a href="mailto:David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk">David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Chimera-users] STL File export size<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi David,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks very much! I'm currently experimenting with MeshMixer's "Reduce" to do the same kind of thing - though I think that will only get me so far. I'll certainly have a look at that walkthrough though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I have just realised part of my problem however, was that I was exporting the surface and ribbon representations though without realising it, rather than just the surface, which would be totally redundant when printed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> David Bhella <<a href="mailto:David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk">David.Bhella@glasgow.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 September 2017 11:24:55<br>
<b>To:</b> Healey, Joe<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>
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There is a tutorial here:<br>
<a href="https://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/polygon_reduction_with_meshlab">https://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/polygon_reduction_with_meshlab</a><br>
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Virus structure group on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CVRstructure">
https://www.facebook.com/CVRstructure</a><br>
Molecular Machines - Images from Virus Research: <a href="http://www.molecularmachines.org.uk">
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> On 22 Sep 2017, at 10:38, Healey, Joe <<a href="mailto:J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk">J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Chimera team,<br>
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> I'm dealing with some protein structures that vary quite a lot in size. I'd like to make 3D printable versions, so I'm exporting STL files.<br>
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> Is there any way to reduce the file size of the exported STLs? How might one control the level of detail (triangulation) of the exported file - I suspect the defaults are including a lot of detail that a 3D printer wouldn't even be able to replicate in the
first place.<br>
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> Many thanks<br>
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> Joe Healey<br>
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> M.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons) MSRB<br>
> PhD Student<br>
> MOAC CDT, Senate House<br>
> University of Warwick<br>
> Coventry<br>
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> Mob: +44 (0) 7536 042620 | Email: <a href="mailto:J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk">
J.R.J.Healey@warwick.ac.uk</a><br>
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> Jointly working in:<br>
> Waterfield Lab (WMS Microbiology and Infection Unit)<br>
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