[Chimera-users] Applying settings from one molecule to another

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Oliver, 
I don't know if it covers everything you had in mind, but there is something like this for the molecule-specific settings (not the global settings)… see command "mcopy":

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mcopy.html>

 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 Oct 28, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible (or if not, might it be worth considering in a future version) to apply the display settings (colors, ribbon/stick display etc) from one molecule to another?
> 
> I’ thinking particularly about a case when one develops a figure with quite complicated coloring and so forth, saves it as a session (potentially with multiple views etc), and then obtains a new, better set of coordinates (from a later refinement, for example). Obviously such a feature would only apply to the atoms in common between the two models (if they are allowed to differ at all), but I feel like this would be a very handy feature to have.
> 
> Best,
> Oliver.