is there a way to 'copy and paste' an entire model? for example, I have a volume data map with some surface and volume renderings that I would like to display in a few different orientations (same map, maybe rotated by 45 deg) side by side in the same scene/window. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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
Hi Jeff, There is no copy and paste capability for models in Chimera. The simplest way to copy and paste everything is to save a session, then open it. Chimera ask if you want to close the already open models and you say no. This method of course only works if all your displayed models are included in Chimera session files. You can also duplicate individual volume models in their current orientations with the volume dialog File / Duplicate menu entry. Once you duplicate the models use Model Panel to activate only the copied models so they can be moved as a group so they do not exactly overlay the original models. Tom
is there a way to do the same kind of duplicate on the surfaces imported from IMOD, or the chimera markers from Volume Path Tracer? -Jeff Thomas Goddard wrote:
Hi Jeff,
There is no copy and paste capability for models in Chimera. The simplest way to copy and paste everything is to save a session, then open it. Chimera ask if you want to close the already open models and you say no. This method of course only works if all your displayed models are included in Chimera session files. You can also duplicate individual volume models in their current orientations with the volume dialog File / Duplicate menu entry.
Once you duplicate the models use Model Panel to activate only the copied models so they can be moved as a group so they do not exactly overlay the original models.
Tom
-- ------------------------------------------------------------- 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
Hi Jeff, The volume path tracer markers are saved in session files so you can use saving and restoring a session to duplicate them. For IMOD surfaces you will just have to open them a second time. To get them to match the position of the already open IMOD surfaces in cases where you have moved some models relative to others you would use the Model Panel / Transform As button to match the positioning of the IMOD copy surface model to its twin. When you open a new model in Chimera and already opened models have been moved relative to one another, the new model will get the same positioning matrix as the already opened model with lowest id number. The id numbers are reported in Model Panel (starting at 0). This is why the "Transform As" operation may be needed. Tom
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