[Chimera-users] display floating XYZ axes

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Pranav,
There isn’t a feature to show the axes automatically, but you can open this file in Chimera:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/XYZ-axes.bild>

This “XYZ-axes.bild” file is a short plain-text file describing 3D objects, in this case, 3 solid arrows pointing along the axes.  See the comments in the file for which color is which axis. The file is just one of the examples in the BILD format description:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html>

You can edit the scale value to make the arrows larger, etc.
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jul 25, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Pranav Shah <pranav_shah at hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Chimera Users and Devs,
> 
> Is there a possibility to display the XYZ axes a la coot in chimera, so that one can keep a track of the direction of the views in the window?
> 
> Cheers,
> Pranav