Blender for Scientists - Make ANY Molecule FAST

This is an accelerated version of the original "How to Make ANY Molecule" tutorial. It condenses the tutorial content to less than five minutes and highlights some key process improvements I've implemented in my own work.

The original is definitely more beginner friendly and should be helpful for troubleshooting. I've always wanted to have sub 5 minute tutorials that cater to people more familiar with Blender, so if you already have a good grasp on the software, or are just looking for a refresher version of the original tutorial this is the video for you.

0:00 What you Need
0:30 Using Molview
1:20 Converting in OpenBabel
1:53 Blender Setup
2:10 Atomic Blender Import Settings
2:30 Molecule Cleanup
4:48 Materials Setup and Corrections
5:30 Conclusion

The original tutorial:

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[lunacy_vicius]

Hello its amazing but i have a problem, in my case the double bonds are not generated any suggestion?

[DeepPharmaScience]

Holy moly this is a great video. It's even easier to create visualizations with your Blender tutorials than using VMD haha

[ONRIPRESENCE]

I've been sharing this with my colleagues 😀

[edled]

Great malecus. So useful video thank you

[giovannimariapiccini]

At 3:40, after amking instances real, you say Shit and J to select any atom, but I think it is only Shift and then selection, after that Ctrl+J to join.

[andreasflensmark]

I would love to see how you would make cyclodextrins, or something that can be easily and quickly scaled up or down depending on how many repeating units it has. I think CDs would be a cool problem since it has a conical shape and can have changing amounts of glucose molecules, altering the radius.

[TheGaulYo]

I'm not a scientist but I had to design a molecule graphic for a campaign. This was SO HELPFUL, thanks!!!!

[NguyenTrongTho]

Thanks for another great video. Can you please do a video on how to animate Atomic Orbital Hybridization in blender, e.g. sp³, sp², sp in carbon?

[piotr]

How can I import molecule with not flat structure after energy minimalization?

[mohammadbabazadeh-bmhy]

Double bounds are not supported in pdb format so in blender appear as single bonds
How did you fix this problem?
Generate 3D coordinate does not work😢

[seyedmohammadmotevalli]

Thanks for the great tutorial. I’m wondering how I can change the bonds color. I mean a same color for all of the bonds which is different from atoms. Thanks

[ilyas]

Thanks for your nice job. How to freely expand the structure range?

[JA_J-A]

How can I import the Space Filling model to Blender? Does it have something to do with Babel? There is a space filing option in the importing menu however it keeps on giving me ball and stick model.

[hishamgamal]

Could you make tutorials about lab equipment such as hot plates, mechanical stirrers, and phototelectrochemical cells, etc...

[abbie]

is there any way to model sigma or pi bonds? Im doing a project for school and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to model those using blender and this website.

[IslamKhalil-cgdu]

I really need to know how to save the work as a png, if there is a video u hvae mentioned this in it, please let me know what it is

[lukebernatas]

Hello ! Thanks very much for this tutorial. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me ... i have this error message when trying to import my .pdb file into Blender.

Python : Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.4\3.4\scripts\addons\io_mesh_atomic\pdb_gui.py", line 198, in execute
import_pdb(self.ball,
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.4\3.4\scripts\addons\io_mesh_atomic\pdb_import.py", line 1335, in import_pdb
mat_P_BSDF = BSDF']
KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "Principled BSDF" not found'

Do you know why this doesn't work ?
Thanks by advance

[hishamgamal]

The latest version of blender doesn't provide double

[IslamKhalil-cgdu]

how to setup and download open babel?
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[crehenge]

So it's basically just the same thing you post over and over and over again...