Hi Daniel, Default for "hide" is hiding atoms, but you can specify cartoons, atoms, or both (as well as surfaces etc.). See documentation for "hide" by using command "help hide" or viewing the copy on our website: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/show.html> Examples: hide #1 target ac -- same as -- hide #1 atoms,cartoons If you want to include more than one type of display, target is the shorter way. For all kinds of display types, hide #1 target abpcs Now, you could hide the entire model and all of its displays with hide #1 models ...same as un-checking the "eye" column in the Models panel ... but then you would need to re-enable model display to show any of its underlying display types: atoms, cartoons, etc. (it's a display hierarchy). I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Apr 21, 2026, at 12:30 PM, Daniel David Richman via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi users,
Often when I open a PDB, some residues are shown in both cartoon and atomic display. Often I want to hide both displays, and I can’t figure out how to do this. For instance
open 7ubj hide #1 // hides only the atoms hide #1 all // gives an error hide #1 cartoons // this seems to be the only way to hide the cartoons?
same story with, for instance hide #1/A
Am I missing something? I’m running 1.11.1 on Mac.
Thanks, Daniel\