[Chimera-users] STL/OBJ 3D models exported by Chimera cannot be read in Office 2019

[Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra Pedregal]

Hi, Chimera team!

I have recently discovered that Office 2019 has support for 3D objects that can be rotated, animated, zoomed... So I was curious about the possibilities for our molecular presentations. I knew Chimera allows to export molecules to several 3D formats and crossed my fingers so there was at least one format supported by Office.

- Good news: there are two! STL and OBJ are both exported by Chimera and supported by Office.

- Bad news: while the files can be correctly "loaded" in Office, they are not displayed at all! "Image could not be shown".

Is this something that must be addressed in Chimera or is Microsoft's fault? The error message is very succinct and does not provide more details. I have attached the files I created with Chimera just in case.

Thank you very much!
Jaime.
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