Hi Tim, You can certainly use "clip list" in a cxc file. If you mean you want to set the clipping planes the same as reported by "clip list" you might want to consider using "view" instead. I.e. If there is a specific scene (specific molecules in specific orientations) being clipped, one would generally save a named view, which includes the clipping plane positions, and then restore the view later as needed (see "view" command for both saving and restoring), and save a session (.cxs file) which includes all your named views. However, you could certainly try using "clip" to set the near and far clipping planes with the same offset, axis, position as reported. See the usage of the "clip" command, practically the same as what you get from back from "clip list": <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/clip.html> Example clip near -3.0783 axis -0.462,-0.880,0.109 position 218.1,184.5,202.4 How to read the usage lines in command help pages: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/usageconventions.html> 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 Feb 13, 2026, at 8:00 AM, Timothy Springer via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Can you translate this into a clip command I can use in a .cxc file? clip list Using 2 clip planes: near offset -3.0783, axis -0.462,-0.880,0.109, point on plane 218.1,184.5,202.4) far offset 12.676, axis 0.462,0.880,-0.109, point on plane 210.8,170.6,204.1)
- Tim Timothy A. Springer, Ph.D. Latham Family Professor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital Founder, Institute for Protein Innovation