Hello, ChimeraX does not have any option to thicken the mesh lines, so when you save an image at high resolution they turn out very thin. For an explanation of why there isn't an option, see <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2018-September/000315.htm...> There isn't a color named licorice, but this issue is the same regardless of what the color is. Our older program Chimera had a "meshmol" command to create a fake molecule so that the mesh could be shown as stick "bonds," but as far as I know ChimeraX does not have that. Some people have tried selecting the mesh (and you could change selection color to black instead of lime, see command "graphics selection"), but it does not look good in saved images. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/graphics.html#selection> Sorry about this limitation, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 22, 2025, at 3:20 PM, Abhipsa Shatarupa via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hello, I am currently preparing figures for a publication and am using ChimeraX to render a density map. The color of the mesh representation I am using is set to licorice, but after I save the image in TIFF/PNG format at 7602 × 5680 resolution, the mesh appears quite faint. Could you please advise on how to make the density appear darker or more prominent in the saved image? Thank you! -Abhipsa _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list -- chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu To unsubscribe send an email to chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu Archives: https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/