[Chimera-users] command line "vol all style surface plane z, 60, 8

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Dieter,
The volume command documentation gives syntax for the "planes" option:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/volume.html#planes>

As explained in the above, it would be something like 

volume #0 style surface planes z,64,64,1,8

...where the last number in the comma-separated list is the depth.  
I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jan 7, 2021, at 11:06 PM, Dieter Blaas <dieter.blaas at meduniwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>     I am trying to display a volume (128 px box) sliced through the middle as seen down the z axis but 8 slices thick instead of just one.
> 
> I can render a single slice with "vol #0 style surface plane z,64" but I could not find out how to make it e.g. 8 slices thick. In VolumeViewer there is the parameter 'Depth' but it is not accepted as parameter in the command line! Rater, adding one more number at the end of the command starts playing a movie of one slice after the other....
> 
> Thanks a lot for hints, bw Dieter