<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Byrne,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> We have long been interested in adding Collada format export of scenes from ChimeraX. Here is the feature request for that</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/485" class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/485</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But our scene export in ChimeraX has focused on GLTF format, as that has been the most requested. Here is an example showing GLTF export from ChimeraX (including texture colors).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/texture-may2021/export_3d.html" class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/texture-may2021/export_3d.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ChimeraX also exports OBJ, STL, X3D, VTK as shown in the save command docs</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#formats" class="">https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#formats</a><br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Can you make use of GLTF files? If not, a quick solution might be to convert ChimeraX GLTF files to Collada with third-party software.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 2, 2021, at 10:41 AM, Byrne Pedit via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">ChimeraX is awesome and definitely superior to the original but for the inability to export as .dae (Collada). Is that possibly on the to-do list? This is important for those of us (just me?) writing interactive molecular apps for devices. It is the only satisfactory path I’ve found between a PDB file and SCNNodes/Scenes in iOS. (See the iOS app ‘BioMole’, free, if interested in an application.)<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Chimera-users mailing list: Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<br class="">Manage subscription: https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>