[Chimera-users] changing the rendering of distanced dotted lines

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Boaz,
yes, you can change the dash length, or even show the distance  
monitors as solid lines or sticks.  The distance monitors are  
"pseudobonds," and what you want to do is edit their attributes.

This will change all the distance monitors (if you had more than one):

  - Tools... General Controls... Pseudobond Panel  (version 1.2154;  
maybe in a different section of Tools in older versions)
  - then in the Pseudobond Panel, make sure the "distance monitor"  
entry in the left side is highlighted, then click the "attributes"  
button on the right
  - in that attributes panel, you can mess with dash/space ratios or  
change to a solid line (set "dashed lines enabled" to false) or  
sticks (open the Component PseudoBond Attributes section, change  
"bond style" to stick)

Hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html

On Sep 5, 2005, at 7:09 AM, Boaz Shaanan wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Distances between pairs of atoms are marked as dotted lines by   
> the 'distances' panel. Is it possible to make those dots bigger by  
> scaling them up somehow  so that they are seen more clearly ? They  
> obviously get larger when I zoom in but sometimes I'd rather stay  
> in the zoom-out view but make the dots more visible.
>
>  Please let me know. Thanks,
>
>                Boaz
>
>
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