[Chimera-users] Saving marker file on command line

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Rene,
Sorry, there is no Chimera command to save a marker file (.cmm) --the current way is with the Volume Tracer tool's File menu.

<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/volumepathtracer/volumepathtracer.html#markerfiles>

IThe "write" command can save a marker file as PDB, but not as the marker format, unfortunately.

In ChimeraX, it is much more convenient:  the "save" command saves many formats including marker (.cmm), e.g.:

save output.cmm models #2

<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html>

However, ChimeraX does not yet save labels as marker notes, and the marker notes are not shown as labels when a cmm file is read.
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/markers.html>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Sep 8, 2020, at 5:24 AM, Rene Frank <R.Frank at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I would like to save a .cmm marker file on the command line by specifying the model number. Please can you help me with what is the command to do this. 
> Thank you,
> Rene