[Chimera-users] Is it possible to dump out the SAS surface points calculated by ChimeraX?

[Elaine Meng]

Hello Francois,
(There is a chimerax-users e-mail list, CC’d here.)

Note that the surface displayed in Chimera and ChimeraX is the SES, not the SAS.  For spacing of points, see the “surface” command option “gridSpacing” — use ChimeraX command “help surface” or view the help at our website:
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/surface.html#options>

Use ChimeraX command “save formats” to see what formats you can save.  STL or X3D would include the surface vertices, I believe.  For full details on “save” use command “help save” or see the copy here:
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. 
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jul 10, 2017, at 2:01 AM, Francois BERENGER <berenger at bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am not interested by surface normals,
> the 3D coordinates would be enough.
> 
> Is it possible to control the surface sampling of the surfacing algorithm?
> Like with a number of points per Angstrom^2 parameter?
> Thanks a lot,
> Francois.
>