To supplement Elaine's answer:  you can have model numbers higher than 9.  The command line interface only shows buttons for models 0-9, but you can have models 10+, there just aren't buttons for them.  They can still be referenced in commands (e.g. #13) and will show up in the Model Panel.

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen

                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

                        http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

Hi Yeung,
You can save as many models/submodels as you want into one mol2 file.   
Choose File.... Save Mol2.  In that dialog there is an option to "Save  
multiple models in":
  a single file [individual @MOLECULE sections]
  multiple files [appending model number]
  a single file [combined @MOLECULE section]

If you choose "individual @MOLECULE sections", that means that when  
you read the file back into Chimera, all the models/submodels that you  
have now will be submodels in that newly opened model.  If you choose  
"combined @MOLECULE sections" that means when you read the file back  
into Chimera, all the models you have now will be one giant model.  It  
sounds like you want "individual".
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/savemodel.html#mol2>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng@cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                     http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html



On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:34 AM, CHIU,YEUNG wrote:

Dear friends,

Hello! I'm wondering how many models and submodels in all can
Chimera save into one single mol2 file? Right now I can have
models only 0-9 into one single mol2 file. I think I'm going to
use submodels, but how can I generate them? For instance, if I
have a brunch of pdb files which contain one molecule each, I'd
like to combine them into one mol2 file, which has a submodel
corresponding to each molecule. (If this statement of the problem
is not clear enough, please let me know).

Thank you for your help and sorry to bother the others. Best
wishes.

Sincerely yours
CHIU,YEUNG

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