You need to use

    name frozen test sel

which will set test to be the currently selected atoms.  In your example you used

    name test sel

which just sets the name test to be the name "sel".  So later when you use it uses "sel" and since nothing is selected.  This "name frozen" versus "name" command is confusing.

Tom


On Jan 22, 2026, at 5:21 PM, Timothy Springer via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

I cant get my named selections to work. 
Here is an example.
select #1/V:80@CD2
1 atom, 1 residue, 1 model selected
name test sel
select clear
select test
Nothing selected

- Tim
Timothy A. Springer, Ph.D.
Latham Family Professor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Founder, Institute for Protein Innovation
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