Dear Elaine, I would like to be able to copy the position info to a chimera script rather than a session. With set_view/get_view it is possible. The one can write a script that sets window size, set view, load structures, change appearance, and render a figure. If one needs to change a file from which model is loaded, with script it involves quick edit of a text file. I seek for that just for convenience of having everything in one editable script rather than keeping a session with saved positions. Best, Jan On 02/10/2015 05:21 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:
Dear Jan, I believe "savepos" and "reset" are the Chimera equivalents, e.g.
savepos name1 [...move stuff around...] savepos name2 reset name1 reset name2 80
What savepos saves sounds like the same stuff as in the pymol setview description, not sure why you rejected it as the equivalent: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/savepos.html>
Chimera also allows saving/restoring scenes, which besides the position information also include display styles, colors, etc. See the "scene" command: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/scene.html>
Because scenes contain more information than positions, they can make Chimera session files rather large. I hope this helps, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Feb 10, 2015, at 7:19 AM, Jan Kosinski <kosinski@embl.de> wrote:
Is there an equivalent of pymol get_view and set_view in Chimera?
I am aware of savepos command, but I am looking for a feature like Pymol get_view command (http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Get_View), which allows to copy the current view to a script as text and restore it using set_view (http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Set_View).
Thanks in advance, Jan
-- Jan Kosinski, PhD Structural and Computational Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Meyerhofstrasse 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany