[Chimera-users] Regarding saving image in chimera nogui

[Elaine Meng]

… and if you want to loop through lots of structures, you may need to use Python, see:
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ProgrammersGuide/basicPrimer.html>

Elaine

> On May 11, 2018, at 4:19 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I guess you will be using commands.  Here are commands for your steps
> 1. open
> 2. surface
> 3. color
> 4, copy
> Of course, you will have to include more things in those commands, various options, residue numbers, filenames etc. that you should test in the GUI first to make sure they do what you want.  See also the list of commands for anything else you might want to do like rotate (turn) translate (move) zoom (scale) … and click on the link to see each command’s help with information about the command syntax and  possible options.
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/framecommand.html>
> 
> See also:
> getting started with commands
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/getting_started.html>
> 
> tips for making nice images
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/print.html#tips>
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
>> On May 11, 2018, at 4:09 PM, NAGARAJAN <nagabioinfostar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>>   I have to use chimera --nogui and do the following
>> 
>>  1. load a structure
>>  2. make Surface representation
>>  3. Color surface of selected residues with a selected color
>>  4. save image
>> 
>> Any idea how to do the 4 steps in chimera --nogui?
>> Thank you
> 
> 
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