Thanks Eric, Will try it out! Best, Pranav -- Pranav Shah Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Pranav, You could install the OpenCommands bundle from the toolshed (Tools→More Tools…) to run any commands you like after a structure is opened, so that way you could customize the display as desired.

--Eric

Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Jan 26, 2026, at 8:31 AM, Pranav Shah via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Team, I prefer to view my models represented in the classic ribbon-style. Is there a way I can make this a default behaviour in chimerax when opening an mmcif/pdb file? Best, Pranav -- Pranav Shah Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

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