Visualizing Results

After converting input into 3D modeling files, a variety of programs can be used to observe them. TheorChem2Blender is designed with Blender in mind as the program to open the files, however, the output types can be seen and modified from a variety of programs, including Unity, Maya, Unreal Engine, and others.

Please see the adequate documentation for using the aforementioned programs. For users interested only in converting computational chemistry output into 3D renderings and observing them easily, use one of the two options below.

3D Viewer (Windows)

  • Download 3D Viewer from the Microsoft store app.

  • Open the output from TheorChem2Blender using 3D Viewer.

F3D (MacOS)

  • If you don’t have it, first install Homebrew

  • Then type the line
    brew install f3d

  • Open the output using F3D

Note

TheorChem2Blender can produce .fbx files as one of the options.

A security vulnerability has been identified in the FBX file format, which could potentially lead to remote code execution. This has led to 3D Viewer disabling FBX file support in various applications to mitigate the risk. See more information here