[Chimera-users] export scene to maya, obj, iges, stl, dwg-dxp?

[Greg Couch]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Damir Perisa wrote:

> dear all,
>
> is it possible, to export a scene from chimera to
> mayaBinary, obj, iges, stl or dwg-dxp formats?
>
> i have checked and chimera can export to a X3D format (vrml) as well
> as PovRay. i didn't find any info about transforming one of these to
> some other format.
>
> has anybody successfully exported chimera scenes
> (ribbon+surface+single_residue_atoms mix structures, not just a pdb
> file as atoms alone) to a file-format used by designers?
>
> thanx in advance for any help,
>
> damir

Looking at the Maya documentation, it has a VRML2 importer and that is the 
VRML format chimera exports (also known as VRML97).  So that's the best 
match for Maya.  Chimera's X3D output is the XML version, not the VRML3
version, and so is very different.  If anyone is interested in writing 
other exporters for chimera, please contact me and/or send email to the 
chimera-dev mailing list.

 	Greg Couch
 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab