[Chimera-users] Moving molecules independently in chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Hi David,
There are several different ways to toggle the "activation status" of  
a model,
i.e. whether the model can be moved or not.  This status can be set  
separately
for each model.  Any of these ways can be used:

- if you are showing the Command Line (Tools... Favorites... Command  
Line),
the checkboxes next to the model numbers in the "Active models" line  
can be
used to activate/deactivate models.

- in the Model Panel (Tools... Favorites... Model Panel), the "Active"
checkboxes can be toggled to activate/deactivate models.

- the "select" command can be used, as described in
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/select.html

You might consider taking a look at the tutorials (Help... Tutorials).
Both of the beginner tutorials mention this issue (near the end of the
respective tutorial). When you  open both of your PDB files, by default
the first one you open will be model 0 and the second will be model 1.
I 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 29, 2005, at 2:18 PM, David Chenoweth wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am a new chimera user and was just wondering if someone could  
> tell me how to move a single molecule in chimera when I have two  
> open.  I have two separate small molecule pdb files and I want to  
> open both in the same chimera session.  I also want to be able to  
> move one independent of the other so I can overlay the two.  Once  
> they are overlayed I would also like the option of adjusting either  
> or moving both together.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> David C.
>
>