Hi Matthias, Currently "open" has a "name" (model name) option but not one to set the model ID number. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#models> I'll leave it to the others as to whether such an option will be added to "open", but currently you can change the model ID number in a subsequent step using the "rename" command. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/rename.html> I can understand it's not as convenient, however, since it requires knowing the original automatically assigned model number to specify the model you want to change. Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Oct 11, 2023, at 6:33 AM, Vorländer,Matthias Kopano via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi everyone, In the old Chimera, it was possible to assign a model ID to a file that was being opened. That was really helpful when writing scripts and made them more robust, because now if the order in which files are opened is changed, all downstream commands that use the model ID become messed up. Is this feature still somewhere hidden in ChimeraX, or, if not, could it be brought back? Other commands such as the the volume operations still have this feature (modelId in new-map-options…) Many thanks, Matthias