Thanks Elaine,

I will try to do this with ChimeraX. What I am trying to to do is to generate  symetry related copies of a model  fitted into a density map using the sym command. I noticed that  the only way to define the center of  symetry to be centered on the density volume was using the option center #n (where n is the id of the  voume density) but only  after doing center and orient by pressing the buttons in the volume viewer.

Although chimeraX is much more prowerful I still find hard to  find the the equivalent  in ChimeraX  of some operations  that I use often in Chimera. 😉

Thanks again,

Best

H.

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In Chimera, there may not be commands that do exactly the same thing as some button.  You might look at  "focus <model-number>" and "reset" (maybe only if one model is open, or they haven't been moved relative to one another?) but in my tests, they did not do exactly the same thing as those buttons.

That's one reason ChimeraX is way better than Chimera!  You can use the GUI and it shows the command that it used in the Log.

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Oct 8, 2024, at 1:38 PM, Hernando J Sosa via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Chimera,
>
> What would be the equivalent commands to the Center and Orient buttons at the bottom of the Volume Viewer  menu tab?
>
> Thanks
>
> H.