Dear UCSF Chimera Team:

 

Please, I would much appreciate your advice on the following:

 

First issue:

Given a number of planes  -  calculated/created through the ‘define’ command -  I would like to select one of them, with some command entered at the command line  ….  How can I do it?

 

The reason why I want to select it through the command line, and not by directly by clicking at it at the axes/planes/centroids table, is because later I would like to use the command inside a runCommand statement, in a Python/IDLE script (with *.py extension) …

 

Second issue:

By the way, do you think this piece of code could work?

Assume that the desired plane is already selected …. I want to internally handle the plane as   ‘p1’   in my Python code:

 

p1= chimera.Plane()

from chimera import selection

p1= selection

 

or perhaps this single instruction …..    

p1= chimera.selection

 

Let me try to explain:  Within my Python code, I want to have a way to make reference to a plane created by the ‘define’ command  ( should I call it a ‘ handle’? … not sure whether it is the correct term …).

 

Well, I hope that I managed to make it sufficiently clear … Thanks in advance for your kind attention.

Cheers,

 

Juan