Dear All, Is there a way to draw and visualize the three axes of the PDB reference frame in Chimera? Thank you for your help, Roberto
Hi Roberto, It isn't a built-in function currently, but you can open the attached BILD file in Chimera (just use File... Open) to show the axes: X red, Y yellow, Z blue. The BILD format is very simple. In fact, the file just contains the following plain text: .translate 0.0 0.0 0.0 .scale 5 .sphere 0 0 0 0.5 .color 1 0 0 .arrow 0 0 0 5 0 0 .color 1 1 0 .arrow 0 0 0 0 5 0 .color 0 0 1 .arrow 0 0 0 0 0 5 You can edit the file if you want to change the offset (the .translate line) or the size (the .scale line). BILD format is described here: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Roberto Kopke Salinas wrote:
Dear All, Is there a way to draw and visualize the three axes of the PDB reference frame in Chimera? Thank you for your help, Roberto
Yes Elaine, this helps. Thank you Roberto On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Roberto, It isn't a built-in function currently, but you can open the attached BILD file in Chimera (just use File... Open) to show the axes: X red, Y yellow, Z blue.
The BILD format is very simple. In fact, the file just contains the following plain text:
.translate 0.0 0.0 0.0 .scale 5 .sphere 0 0 0 0.5 .color 1 0 0 .arrow 0 0 0 5 0 0 .color 1 1 0 .arrow 0 0 0 0 5 0 .color 0 0 1 .arrow 0 0 0 0 0 5
You can edit the file if you want to change the offset (the .translate line) or the size (the .scale line). BILD format is described here: < http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Roberto Kopke Salinas wrote:
Dear All, Is there a way to draw and visualize the three axes of the PDB reference frame in Chimera? Thank you for your help, Roberto
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