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From: "Jan Gebauer" <jan.gebauer@uni-koeln.de>

Subject: Analog command to reinit & create?

Date: December 13, 2021 at 7:11:40 AM PST

To: ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users-bounces@cgl.ucsf.edu>

Reply-To: "Jan Gebauer" <jan.gebauer@uni-koeln.de>

Hi everyone,

I am currently teaching a crystallographic course and this year I am introducing ChimeraX for the first time (previous years we have used PyMol).

I still am in the middle of my personal transiston from PyMol to ChimeraX and potentially I am still stuck too much in the "PyMol"-way to do it, but I still miss a couple of commands. Could anyone help with that?

1) Analog to Reinit

I generate all my publication figures with scripts (now cxc). The Reinit command in Pymol, always gave me a fresh enviroment, however the closest analog I found "Close" only closes the current model. All other settings (Lightning etc.) are kept and only reset after closing ChimeraX. Therefore, I do not get the same results from my script, if I run it multiple times...

2) Create object   

Is there a way to copy a selection of atoms into a new molecule - for complicated visualisations?

Thanks so far to the developers - I love more things on ChimeraX than I miss 👍

Best,

Jan

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Dr. Jan Gebauer

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