Thanks Elaine!
What I have done for now is to make an alias, and then use the very handy “buttonpanels” command to make a panel of buttons, including one for default molecule display:
alias default_mol_display ~disp; rib; rainbow chain palette RdYlBu-5
buttonpanel Shortcuts rows 3 columns 3
buttonpanel Shortcuts add default_disp command "default_mol_display"
This does the trick nicely!
Cheers
Oli
On Sep 1, 2023, at 6:25 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Oli,
There aren't "New Molecules" preferences (like Chimera has) in ChimeraX currently, sorry. Maybe one of the programmers can advise on how to hard-wire it into the code.
For the non-programmers:
You can use "open" with "autoStyle false" to avoid the automatic styling of atomic structures, but then they just come up as white spheres.
Automatic styling rules:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/autostyle.html>
You can make a custom preset but you would still need to choose it from the menu or apply it via command in a separate step. So probably not any more convenient than making an alias and then using the alias.
Presets and user-defined presets:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/menu.html#presets>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/preferences.html#startup>
Aliases:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/alias.html>
Cheers,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
On Sep 1, 2023, at 3:15 PM, Oliver Clarke via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi,
Is there anyway to set default preferences for molecule display? Currently it seems to vary (I think?) based on the number of atoms in the model - so relatively small proteins will load as ribbons, while larger ones will load in sphere representation.
I would rather set a default such that all molecules load as ribbons, rainbow colored by chain. Is this possible?
Cheers
Oli
