[Chimera-users] Display axes for global frame of reference?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Andy,
It just occurred to me that the "align" command changed recently.  The 
link in my previous message goes to the man page for the latest and 
greatest, which allows you to specify two sets of atoms. The centroids 
of the sets are aligned. The older version of "align" (such as in the 
most recent production release, 1.2422) only allows two atoms rather 
than two sets of atoms to be used:
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/1.2422/docs/UsersGuide/midas/align.html

Currently the newer version of "align" is available in the August Linux 
snapshots
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html#snapshots

and *untested* builds for other platforms
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/alpha-downloads.html

Best,
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 7, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:

> You might be able to do what you want even without a visual 
> representation of the axes, using the "align" command and then 
> rotating 90 degrees around various axes with "turn"
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/align.html
> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/turn.html