Dear Elaine, just another quick question. I use silhouettes in my figures. Is it possible not to have them for bonds, contacts, distances? In Chimera these elements did not have silhouettes. Thanks Alessio Il giorno mer 28 ago 2024 alle ore 22:55 Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> ha scritto:
Dear Alessio, (I changed the Subject line so that other people may be able to find this answer later.)
Unfortunately there is no specific option for arrow-tip width. Probably you have already been looking at the options of the "cartoon style" command: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cartoon.html#style>
To minimize the difference between the arrow tip and coil segment, the only choices I can see are to use a smaller "arrowScale" value, although that will decrease the width of the whole arrowhead, not just the tip. For example,
cartoon style arrowScale 1.5
Another issue is that the arrow tip is still an oval rather than circular cross-section like the coil. To get it closer to a circle requires increasing the fineness of triangulations along the ribbon path with the "divisions" value, for example
cartoon style divisions 40
Using higher values increases number of triangles drawn and may slow responsiveness of the program. Cartoon style won't let you use >40, but if you want an even higher number you can use a different command to do it, for example
graphics quality ribbonDivisions 100
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/graphics.html#quality>
I hope this helps, 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 Aug 28, 2024, at 1:25 PM, Alessio Nocentini via ChimeraX-users < chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear Elaine, sorry for asking again for your support, but I am having problems in passing from Chimera to ChimeraX. Although I checked thoroughly the guidelines, I did not find how to reduce the size of the Arrow Tips (as they were called in Chimera, ribbon style editor panel), to fit the size of the coil. Here you have my case.
Thank you a lot Best
Alessio
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