Hi Tianming,

Each time you click to erase a part of the map it logs a command that gives the center position and radius of the sphere, for example,

volume erase #1 center 203.25,197.44,171.69 radius 29.616

If you want the center position without actually erasing a tricky way to do that is to use the "measure rotation" command. If model #1 is the map and #2 is the eraser sphere then this would to it

measure rotation #2 toModel #1
Position of eraser sphere #2 relative to emdb 31605 #1 coordinates:
Matrix rotation and translation
1.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 203.24973595
0.00000000 1.00000000 0.00000000 197.43569648
0.00000000 0.00000000 1.00000000 171.69176485

You can see the center position in the last column of the 3 by 4 matrix output by the command

Tom

On Oct 19, 2022, at 7:50 AM, Tianming Qu via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi ChimeraX developers,

Is there any way I can know the center of the erase sphere in CHimeraX?

Best,
Tianming
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