Hi Vishal,Actually you can do this with a Chimera command script, as opposed to programming in Python. A command script just contains the same commands you would enter in the Command Line. I'm not sure of what type of saving you had in mind, " but the "copy" command can be used to save an image file, "save" to save a session, and "write" to save a PDB file.
This page links to all the command man pages, plus it discusses command scripts (at the bottom):
Just opening the command file will execute the commands.
Here are links to a couple of example command files:
And here is another, between the dashed lines:
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open 1hxx
open 1pho
modelcolor coral #0
modelcolor cornflower blue #1
~disp; rep bs; ribbon; ribrepr smooth
matchmaker #0 #1
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I guess the main difficulty if you are saving images is how to get a good view of the structures. Usually some rotation, scaling, etc. is done interactively to make a better picture.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Vishal Pua wrote:
Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to create a script, that would open pdb files, render them to look a certain way ex. wire or ribbon, then save, automatically? this would have to work for a number of pdb files? I have little programming experience, and wonder if there was an easy way to do this, thanks
Vishal Pua
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