I know. What I meant was, I use box from electron densities to get an outline on the unit cell of the model (pdb file). Thanks! -chinthaka -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2021 12:53 PM To: Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh <silva228@llnl.gov> Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Unit cell orientations Unit Cell is for atomic coordinates from crystal structures. The term "unit cell" refers to X-ray crystallography. Elaine
On Jun 4, 2021, at 12:45 PM, Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Yeah. None of the buttons including 'outlie' in 'unit cell' option works. I just use 'box' option on electron density and change back to 'surface' to get an outline.
-chinthaka
-----Original Message----- From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2021 11:30 AM To: Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh <silva228@llnl.gov> Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Unit cell orientations
In the Unit Cell tool, you can show the outline box by clicking Outline. If the axes defined by the data are already along X, Y, or Z, you could try command
view orient
... to remove any rotatations you had previously done by hand, and then use the "turn" command to perform exactly 90-degree rotations after that, e.g. around the screen Y axis (vertical):
turn y 90
However, if those don't get what you want, you may need to rotate the structure by hand to try to align the axes with the view.
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Elaine
On Jun 4, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Tristan Croll <tic20@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
If it helps, the Clipper plugin adds a command “clipper symmetry #{model number} that will draw the unit cell edges and all symmetry axes for a given model. There’s nothing built in to automatically align the view parallel to an axis, but it will at least give you something to manually align against.
On 4 Jun 2021, at 18:50, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Jun 4, 2021, at 10:39 AM, Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh <silva228@llnl.gov> wrote:
Hi Elaine, Is it possible to orient a unit cell along different axes in ChimeraX? I tried using ‘Unit cell’ option, but not sure if this is the correct place to do it. Thanks! -chinthaka
Hi Chinthaka, (CC to chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu ... please use that address for ChimeraX questions)
Sorry, I don't understand the question. You can build the unit cell or a block of multiple unit cells with the Unit Cell tool: <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user / tools/unitcell.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!jLJ_w-sSKftEOlx8QBt8YPikZQ8 t 439pIGkXYR2hlS6KYA0sGeIYRZ_U09ujG3jaiew$ >
The axes of the unit cell are defined in the data... it is not something that you control. Of course, you can rotate it after you build it.
Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
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