Hi Thiru, If the single structure is already oriented exactly with the stack direction in Z (or X or Y) then just open multiple copies of the structure and (**without rotating the view by hand** important!!) use the "move" command to place the copies along the axis. E.g. if the starting structure is oriented exactly so that you can stack them in Z (in/out of screen direction), and you know they are supposed to be 35 angstroms apart, then: open myfile.pdb open myfile.pdb open myfile.pdb ... then you would have models #0,1,2. To stack (REMEMBER don't rotate the view by hand yet!): move z 35 model #1 move z 70 model #2 If it were X or Y axis instead of Z, then you would use x or y in the command instead of z. If you mess up you can use command "reset" and then start over with the move commands. See "move" help: <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/move.html> After you are done opening/stacking, then you can rotate the view by hand. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 29, 2021, at 2:29 AM, Thirumurugan Prakasam via Chimera-users <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi, I need help to stack the crystal structures stack on top of each other. For your understanding, I have just shown the image below something like that I wanted to make. Would you please help me with how to make stacked molecular structures using chimera? <image.png>
Thanks, Thiru