Hi James, I'm not sure what you mean by "duplicate," but I will try to answer. (A) If you mean showing a single plane or thin slab, you could do it by dragging the plane interactively to where you want in these two steps: (1) use "volume planes" with desired axis (and thickness if more than one plane), e.g. volume planes z,10,10,1,3 for Z-slab 3 layers thick initially positioned at 10th plane, or for single Z-plane volume planes z see <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#planes> (2) ....and then move it manually to intersect the atom, e.g. use mouse mode to drag plane interactively ( in the Right Mouse tab of the toolbar and then use right mouse drag) <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/mousemodes.html> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/ui.html#mousemode> (B) Another idea is to show the whole map but then use clipping planes centered on the atom, e.g. if it is selected, view sel; zoom 0.5 <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#initial> ...which would use near/far planes (not rotatable), or to instead use front/back clip planes that can be rotated relative to the viewer, for example: clip front -1 back 1 position sel <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/clip.html> You can use different offset values from the -1 and 1 in my example to give a different thickness. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Dec 3, 2024, at 10:17 AM, Vitali James via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear Chimera users
I have to make a slice of a map on the selected atom. Is it possible to duplicate this map view? in chimeraX
James
