[Chimera-users] measure the vertical distance between aromatic planes

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Bing Wang,
It depends what you mean by “vertical”.  You can get the closest distance of two planes (considering them as infinite) by selecting both their rows in the axes/planes/centroid tables, or with  the distance command, for example:

distance p1 p2

However, there is no simple way to get the distance only along a specific direction.
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 Aug 13, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Wang, Bing <bingwang at ou.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chimera,
> 
> Is there a way to measure the vertical distance of two planes in the structure? I do know how to measure the angle between two planes or one line and one plane by the Axes/Planes/Centroids in Chimera. I don't need the distance of two centroid of two planes. I do need the vertical distance of two planes. Could you please show me in detail?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Bing Wang