[chimerax-users] orientation

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Fabian,
As long as you don't accidentally rotate after translating the copies apart with "move" they will be in the same rotational orientation, but they may look as if they are rotated differently because of perspective projection.  

Try switching from perspective to orthographic, command:

camera ortho

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

I attached example images of perspective and orthographic with 5 copies of 1zik in same orientation.  You can see that the ones in the first image (perspective) do look like they are in slightly different orientations, but this goes away in the second image (orthographic).

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 Oct 2, 2020, at 4:00 AM, Fabian Glaser <fabian.glaser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear chimerax experts,
> 
> I have maybe a trivial question, I am willing to show a figure with several copies of the same protein, but when I move one copy of them using the "move x 10 model #1” etc command, they rotate upon probably the center of mass of all the models, such as when I separate all of them, they are rotated slightly different. I would like to show them in exactly the same orientation, is there a trick to move them in such a way that will be show in exactly the same orientation?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Best,
> 
> Fabian

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