As a proud owner of the fdm 3d printer I would like to mention that if you go from vrml to stl and then into slic3r you have to drastically refuce polygon count or else slic3r chokes trying to process the file.
Cjeets, Artem On Aug 23, 2013 5:54 PM, "Edward A. Berry" <ber...@upstate.edu> wrote: > Thanks, yes, i should have checked out the link on the original post > before asking. > Free programs "blender" or "meshlab" convert vmrl to .stl files which > 3d-printers > including makerbot read. eab > > Joel Sussman wrote: > >> Output should be in *VRML* formal >> RasMol, PyMol & Jmol all have options to write out VRML format files. >> Sometimes you need add additional 'struts' to give additional structural >> support, Jmol has option of adding these struts. >> best regards, >> Joel >> >> On 23 Aug 2013, at 21:33, Edward A. Berry <ber...@upstate.edu <mailto: >> ber...@upstate.edu>> wrote: >> >> Along the same lines, does anyone have a program for converting >>> Raster-3D format >>> such as Molscript puts out, into one of the formats readable by a 3D >>> printer? >>> eab >>> >>> Ronnie wrote: >>> >>>> An off-topic question-now that 3D printing is becoming more common, has >>>> anyone tried to print protein structures other than just the surface >>>> representation like in this tutorial? http://www.instructables.com/** >>>> id/3D-Print-a-Protein-**Modeling-a-Molecular-Machine/<http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Print-a-Protein-Modeling-a-Molecular-Machine/> >>>> >>>> Is it possible to print a ribbon representation for example? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Ronnie >>>> >>> >>
