Dear Helge, For 1) yes, it would be command:
select @@display
...the @@ part means atom attribute, and the name of the boolean (on or off) attribute is "display", see:
https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/atomspec.html#attributes https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/attributes.html#atom
For 2) not exactly... if you haven't already made the new session, I would start with the original session with the desired view and then open the data you want in the new session, fit/superimpose them on the original session contents, and close the parts you don't want, and then save the new session. If you already made the new session with a lot of steps, however, it depends on whether you can use the same transformations as in the old session to generate that view. (Whether the data you want to have the same view as the original data is already in coordinates that superimpose with it.) You could try reporting the model transformations in the original session and then in the new session apply them. Reporting/applying transformations would be done with the "view matrix" command, see
https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#matrix
... or you could save to a "positions" file from the original session and apply that file in the new session:
https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/formats/positions.html
That wouldn't include the clipping plane position(s), which can be reported with "clip list" and applied with "clip" https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/clip.html
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Nov 11, 2022, at 2:05 AM, Helge Paternoga via ChimeraX-users chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu wrote:
Dear ChimeraX users,
I have to unrelated questions:
Is there a way to select displayed atoms via the command line?
Is it possible to transfer saved views from one session to another one?
Many regards and thank you for reading,
Helge