[Chimera-users] 3D dashed lines

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Sundar,
Currently there is no dashed or dotted stick option for pseudobonds in the interactive view, sorry.  I don't know which tutorial image you mean -- I made the tutorials in the User's Guide and I'm pretty sure they don't have any such images.

I can think of one way to make dotted or dashed stick pseudobonds in a static image from Chimera, but that is with the "neon" command, which is not available on Windows. 
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/neon.html>

Raytracing with Povray from Chimera will make a static image with solid stick pseudobond even when it is shown as a line in the interactive view, but even if the line is dashed or dotted, the stick is continuous (unfortunately).  At least, that's what happened just now when I tried it in recent builds of both version 1.5 and 1.6.
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/raytracing.html>

I can't answer the Side View part, but it might be a graphics driver issue -- you could try updating your graphics driver.
Regards,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:59 AM, M Sundaramoorthy wrote:

> I like to show pseudobonds (H-bonds, metal coordinations and distances) as solid dotted or dashed lines.
>  
> To draw dashed/dotted line I can choose dashed line style in the Pseduobond attributes panel. But it works only with bond style 'wire' not with 'stick'. It can essentially draws flat lines. How do I show 3D dashed/dotted lines? Some images in the tutorial do have such lines represented as dotted (spheres) lines.
>  
> Another problem I have is that the Side View panel shows the image but does not show the eye (the small square) and the clipping planes (vertical lines). I am using Chimera 1.5rc in Windows Vista.
>  
> Thanks
> Sundar