<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Martin Kampmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>I just downloaded the new Chimera version and tried to combine <br>different models (density maps) into one volume, using the new <br>'combine' function, (e.g. combine #1 #2), but it returned an error <br>message.<br><br>Is it only possible to combine atomic structures (such as PDB files), <br>or is there a way to combine volumes/density?</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, "combine" can only combine molecular models. I'm not even sure how you would combine maps unless 2 out of 3 of their dimensions were the same and they were precisely aligned along the remaining axis.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks a lot!<br>Martin<br><br>P.S.: Thank you so much for developing Chimera! I enjoy working with <br>this program a lot!</div></blockquote><br></div><div>We're happy you like it! Except for "combine" of course. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>