aligning multiple models in the same session
Hi,
I have 4 EM maps opened in one session and cant seem to get them all to align to a central map as origin. I have tried to fit them by hand onto one another and then move it translationally with “move” command to translates a specified model by a distance along a specified axis; in addition to a translational shift, the models also seems to be slightly rotated with respect to one another (see attach image). Can you help please?
Musa Sani, PhD --------------------------------------------- Cell Biology II(B6) The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, the Netherlands, mobile: +31 625 498 194 Tel: +31 20 512 1008
Hi Musa,
I don't understand what you are trying to do. From the image it looks like you want to position them on a line next to each other. You could do that with the "tile" command, for example, to line up models #0, #1, #2 and #3
tile #0-3 columns 4
The small rotation you are talking about is probably because Chimera uses perspective projection. So models near the left edge of the window are seen not directly along the z-axis, but instead off to the side. To avoid that you want to draw the maps using orthographic projection with the command
set projection orthographic
or you can use menu Tools / Viewing Controls / Camera and change the projection setting to "orthographic".
Tom
Hi,
I have 4 EM maps opened in one session and cant seem to get them all to align to a central map as origin. I have tried to fit them by hand onto one another and then move it translationally with “move” command to translates a specified model by a distance along a specified axis; in addition to a translational shift, the models also seems to be slightly rotated with respect to one another (see attach image). Can you help please?
Musa Sani, PhD
Cell Biology II(B6) The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
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m.sani@nki.nl
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Tom Goddard