<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">To close molecular surfaces<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>surface close #1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">or just</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>surf close</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If instead you do</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>~surface</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">that hides the surface. I discourage use of these obscure "~" commands that Chimera used. Use "surface hide #1" or "surface close #1".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you just hide the surfaces they are still in the session file. You can also see the surface models in Model Panel by clicking the little triangle and the left of the model name to show submodel of your molecule. And you can choose those surface models and close them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Melissa Jurica <<a href="mailto:mjurica@ucsc.edu" class="">mjurica@ucsc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That was my first guess, so I turned off the surface view. However, no change in file size. I don’t see how to delete the surface that I calculated- still trying to get the hang of ChimeraX after switching from Chimera.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:41 PM, Tom Goddard <<a href="mailto:goddard@sonic.net" class="">goddard@sonic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Melissa,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Molecular surfaces make session files very large because they save all the surface triangles. Did you have a molecular surface in that large session? I have considered not saving the molecular surfaces and just recomputing them although that will make restoring the session slower as it tries to recompute the surface.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Melissa Jurica <<a href="mailto:mjurica@ucsc.edu" class="">mjurica@ucsc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">What deterimines the file size of saved ChimeraX sessions (.csx files)? I saved a session of one structure (6Y5q) at 4 MB, and another structure (6y50) at 2.6 MB. However, when I saved a session with both structures open, it was a whopping 120.6 MB. Is there a way to reduce that file size?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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