Hi Jeff, I believe plane numbering is by the grid index value, which starts from 0 along each axis for the full data set, at least in all the example data sets I checked. You can see the grid index ranges for your current data set in the "Region bounds" section of Volume Viewer (show this section by checking the "Region bounds" box in the Features menu). Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:07 PM, William Jeffrey Triffo wrote:

hi,

when using the Planes tool in Volume Viewer, are the planes numbered from 0 or 1? I loaded a contour using the IMOD import, where I had drawn the contour on slice 12 of a volume; however, it appears that the plane that transects the contour in Chimera is '11' when using the Planes tool. I tried to test the enumeration by exceeding bounds (150 slices are in the volume, so was expecting an error for an entry of '150' if it was enumerated from zero), but it appears that slice indices outside the range of the loaded volume just default to the limit in either direction (typing in '200' just sets it to the highest-enumerated slice).

-- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Triffo Auer Group, Donner Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Raphael Group, Bioengineering Department, Rice University Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Baylor College of Medicine phone (Berkeley): 510-486-7940 fax (Berkeley): 510-486-6488