Hi Eric, There is no automatic way to apply everything you have done to the display of one molecule to others opened later. However, here are a few ways to avoid repetition: (a) the New Molecules category in Preferences ("Favorites... Preferences" in the menu) controls how you want structures to look when they are opened. The main limitation of this approach is that not everything you might want is in this panel. After changing settings, remember to click Save if you want them to apply to later uses of Chimera. <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/preferences.html#New%20Molec...
(b) make a Chimera command file that sets up display how you want. If you used commands for the first molecule, you could open the Command History and save those set of commands to a file. Otherwise, you could just create it with a text editor. Then simply opening the command file named *.com or *.cmd automatically executes all the commands. The drawback to this approach is needing to learn how to use commands: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/framecommand.html> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/indexcommand.html#cmdfile
(c) there are a few choices in the Presets menu to automatically change several display parameters at once. In the future we would like to allow users to make custom presets that would also appear in this menu, but unfortunately that is not yet possible. <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/menu.html#menupresets> I hope this helps, Elaine On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Eric Ganz wrote:
Now that I have formatted and colored one molecule, I would like to maintain the color and formatting selections for a series of new molecules. How should I do this?