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://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/unitcell.html>
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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