Hi Hernando, The low-res surfaces are for efficiency, but you can force loading all of the atomic coordinates as follows: After you make the Multiscale Model, in that dialog select "All" chains and then change the "Style" to anything other than "Surface" to force Chimera to load the atomic coordinates. This was described with a few more details in previous posts: <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2007-June/001662.html> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2008-December/003373.html

I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:53 AM, hsosa@aecom.yu.edu wrote:

Hi, Is it possible to use the tools in: Higher Order Structures > Multiscale Models to generate full atomic models (with atoms and all the display capabilities of chimera) from the symmetry entries in the PDB file (SMTRY entries) ?

So far I been able to produce only a rough surface representation of the symmetry related molecules. Thanks Hernando