[3dem] 3D printing

[Gabriel Lander]

The Olson lab at Scripps prints out 3D models of PDBs & EM densities, and they are very reasonably priced.
http://models.scripps.edu/
I'm pretty sure that their preferred format is VRML, but it's been a while since I've had anything printed out there. Essentially open your model in UCSF Chimera, color it the way you want, and use the "File -> Export Scene..." command to make a vrml file of it.
-gabe

On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Cindi Schwartz <cindi.schwartz at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone out there taken an IMOD model or similar 3D model from their averaging data and printed it to 3D printer? Can you give details from the starting model format (imod?) to the final model format (???)? What kind of printer you used among the many manufacturers out there. How many colors, was it a single piece or multi-piece, etc? Was it owned by your University or did you do it through a 3rd party printer?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cindi
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