Hi, Is there a way to set an "absolute scale" for viewing in chimera? I'm trying to make pictures in multiple Chimera sessions with different molecules and would like for the results to be all on the same scale. I naively thought I could do this with the "camera" scale but then I noticed that for two different sessions where this value was set to 1.0, the actual scales are quite different. Chimera help revealed that the camera scale is relative to the original size when the model was first opened. Any suggestions would be appreciated! thanks, Cathy Lawson *********************************************************************** Catherine L. Lawson Laboratory for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 cathy.lawson@rutgers.edu tel 732 445 8074 fax 732 445 5312 http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~lawson http://roma.rutgers.edu/~lsbb *********************************************************************
Hi Cathy, I've put code for two commands for setting absolute magnification and window size on the Chimera experimental features page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html The setzoom command sets magnification. It takes one numeric argument -- the pixels per angstrom on the screen at the depth of the center of the displayed models. The windowsize command takes the width and height in pixels to set the Chimera graphics window to. The width cannot be set to less than about 450 pixels due to a problem I have not resolved where the command entry area keeps the window width at least that large. Tom
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