I would like to request an extra feature for chimera, if it is not there already. I normally open multiple structures in chimera and then I use the "Tile Structure" button to visualize them in an array. This is nice, for example, to visualize the evolution of a cryo-EM 3D reconstruction. I would like that chimera could open multiple structures in an array view by default. Could a "Default view" button be added to the Tile Structure window, so that the "Border scale" value setting is saved and then the next time I open several structures they would be displayed in array view? Thank you very much.
Hi Eduardo, I think I could add a "Tile opened models" option, probably in the Preferences panel since that is where our other options are that effect newly opened models. If you opened 6 models then later opened 8 models I think this option should tile the 6, then later tile the 8 separately. It would not tile the 14 as one group, just the ones opened at one time. The border scale can be made to save the most recent value. We are not adding new Chimera features right now because we are preparing a production release due out in about a week. When that is out I can make these additions. Thanks for the suggestion. Tom
As a stopgap measure until Tom gets to this, you could make Ensemble Tile auto-start or appear on your toolbar (use the "Tools" category of Preferences to do that), which would at least cut out a couple of steps in the process. --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Thomas Goddard wrote:
Hi Eduardo,
I think I could add a "Tile opened models" option, probably in the Preferences panel since that is where our other options are that effect newly opened models. If you opened 6 models then later opened 8 models I think this option should tile the 6, then later tile the 8 separately. It would not tile the 14 as one group, just the ones opened at one time. The border scale can be made to save the most recent value.
We are not adding new Chimera features right now because we are preparing a production release due out in about a week. When that is out I can make these additions.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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