Jmol just hasn't been set up to read OBJ files written in quite that format
(where the vertices and faces are intermixed that way). Please send me the
file; I'll fix it in short order.

Bob

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Alexander Rose <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to view obj files exported from pymol but could not get it to work.
> The obj file from pymol looks reasonable, i.e.
>
> # file: pymol.obj
> v 9.775413 -10.004283 -3.190735
> v 9.996734 -10.529106 -3.207321
> v 9.653004 -10.796073 -2.960678
> vn -0.552027 -0.351046 -0.756328
> vn -0.541946 -0.102013 -0.834199
> vn -0.554205 -0.070096 -0.829424
> f 1//1 2//2 3//3
> v 9.147324 -10.091957 -2.762634
> v 9.775413 -10.004283 -3.190735
> v 9.653004 -10.796073 -2.960678
> vn -0.329337 -0.334825 -0.882853
> vn -0.552027 -0.351046 -0.756328
> vn -0.554205 -0.070096 -0.829424
> f 4//4 5//5 6//6
> ... and more
>
> I tried it with some example file (a cube)
>
> # file cube.obj
> v 1 1 1
> v 1 1 -1
> v 1 -1 1
> v 1 -1 -1
> v -1 1 1
> v -1 1 -1
> v -1 -1 1
> v -1 -1 -1
> f 1 3 4 2
> f 5 7 8 6
> f 1 5 6 2
> f 3 7 8 4
> f 1 5 7 3
> f 2 6 8 4
>
> which works when load it with 'isosurface OBJ "/path/to/file.obj"', just
> opening it with the open gui in the application does not work (12.1.23)
>
> Do you experience the same behavior? Can you point me to some pdb for which
> jmol reads the exported obj surface?
>
>
> Best
> Alex
>
>
>
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