Hi- The UCSF Chimera program will all directly export a model as displayed into .stl format.
https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/Outreach/technotes/ModelGallery/index.html Melissa ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Melissa S. Jurica, Ph.D. Professor, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology Center for Molecular Biology of RNA University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Office: 450 Sinsheimer Labs Lab: 434 Sinsheimer Labs Office phone (831) 459-4427 Lab phone (831) 459-2463 Fax (831) 459-3139 http://www.mcd.ucsc.edu/faculty/jurica.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On May 14, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Kathleen Frey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Here are some links that he might find helpful: > > https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:222918 > https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:396459 > > From the instructions on the second link: > > "The STL File of this protein was created using PyMOL, First, you download > the PDB file from the protein databank website (http://www.pdb.org) for > protein molecule 1FQY. Open PyMOL program, then go to File, Open and load the > PDB file you just downloaded. Select to display the surface profile, on the > right control panel of your viewer, click on S and select show as: surface. > This will take a few seconds to load the surface profile. Now you can save > this image as VRML 2 WRL file. The VRML file can be then be viewed and > converted into STL file using a 3D modeling software such as Blender." > > Kathleen > > Kathleen > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Kim Van Vliet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I have used a 3D printer to print out protein structures. I use Autodesk Maya > 2015. There is an add on called mMaya v 1.3 which is the Molecular Maya > Toolkit. This integrates with Autodesk Maya and you can load the pdb file > directly for the protein that you would like to print. I usually export the > final model as a .stl file and you can print on your 3D printer or upload it > to Shapeways.com and select the material and print from there. > > Kim > Kim Van Vliet, Ph.D. > 352-281-4240 > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Patel, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the rather random question but has anyone out there used a 3D > printer to print a protein structure? > > > > If so, what format did you need to convert the PDB into to allow the printer > to interpret the data? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Joe P > > > > > > Joe Patel > > FBLG Specialist > > _________________________________________________ > > AstraZeneca > > R&D | Innovative Medicines | Discovery Sciences > > Boston R&D, Discovery Sciences > > 35 Gatehouse Drive, Waltham MA 02451 > > Tel 1-781-839-4129 > > [email protected] > > > > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This message is private and may contain confidential > and proprietary information. If you have received this message in error, > please notify us and remove it from your system and note that you must not > copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Any unauthorized use > or disclosure of the contents of this message is not permitted and may be > unlawful. > > > > > > > > > > > >
