[Chimera-users] How to change the style of Hbonds

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Wendy,
There are a few different ways:

(a) Ctrl-click to select one H-bond, press keyboard up-arrow to expand selection to all H-bonds, click the green magnifying glass icon near the bottom of the Chimera window to open Selection Inspector, inspect "Pseudobond group" and change the "line style"
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/inspection.html>

(b) start Pseudobond Panel (in menu under Tools... General Controls), click on group name "hydrogen bonds" on the left and then "attributes" on the right, change "line style"
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/pbpanel.html>

(c) use command "setattr" e.g. something like:
setattr g lineType 2
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/setattr.html>

The attribute name (e.g. lineType) and what values mean what (e.g. 2= dashed, 3 = dotted) are shown in the balloon help when you put the mouse over the attribute dialogs mentioned in (a) and (b).

I hope this helps,
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 May 19, 2012, at 2:36 AM, Wendy Chu wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am doing the Hbond analysis for my investigation. I found that the Hbonds are labeled as the solid line in the Chimera. But I prefer the dashed line. How to change it?
> Thank you~~~