Hi Junha,

I think the only way to save a Chimera marker file (.cmm) is through the Volume tracer gui File menu. There is no command as far as I know. But there is a Python script that adds a savemarkers command on the Chimera Python scripts web page.

http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts

http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/attachment/wiki/Scripts/savemarkers.p... http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/attachment/wiki/Scripts/savemarkers.py

It look like it would be pretty trivial to add a "for" loop in that code so it saves each markerset in a separate file with a numeric suffix. Or you could just use the "perframe" command to save each markerset to a separate file.

Tom

On Aug 28, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Jun Ha Song junhasong@berkeley.edu wrote:

Dear RBVI,

I need to save around 340 market sets into individual .cmm files, 1 .cmm for each marker set I have in my Chimera session. I have been looking at UCSF Chimera documentation for some time (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumepathtracer/v... https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumepathtracer/volumepathtracer.html#activeset), and I wanted to ask if multiple marker sets (each with its own unique model ID) can be saved in single batch command line.

Is there a possibility of specifying commands like save or write or export with atom specification of all the model that I want to save to make Chimera save all my 340 marker sets as their individual .cmm files? I was hoping that I could simply use something like

save #1-340 individual UseModelIDasFilename format .cmm directory E:\LBNL\Individual_Models

to make it happen, but all the commands that I thought of as potential candidate for batch-save command doesn't mention whether it can work with volume tracer's "Save current marker set as...".

or, if I can use Volume Tracer's "Save current marker set as..." using a script, I could handle this by making myself very simple macro, but I don't know whether volume tracer's codes would allow some quick script to substitute its "Save current marker set as..." function.

So, in summary, I wanted to know if...

Q1 : Is there a command in UCSF Chimera that allows batch saving multiple market sets as individual .cmm files? Q2 : Can Volume Tracer's "Save current marker set as..." function be used by using some kind of script?

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