Hi Tim, (1) Of course, the specifiers must be correct for the atoms and/or centroids in your structure. You probably have that right but I can't check it because I don't have your exact data. (2) The "distance" command to show the distance does not have a setDefaults option. To use that option you have to use a separate "distance style" command. This is shown in the usage lines on the "distance" help page: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/distance.html> Since you are not setting defaults, it will probably work if you just omit the "setDefaults false" part. 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 Feb 1, 2026, at 7:37 AM, Timothy Springer via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
What is wrong with this second line: define centroid #1/A:214@CD1, CD2, CE1, CE2, CG, CZ radius 0.075 distance #1.3 #1/V:38@NE2 setDefaults false color black dashes 6 radius 0.04
- Tim Timothy A. Springer, Ph.D. Latham Family Professor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital Founder, Institute for Protein Innovation