[chimerax-users] orientation

[Fabian Glaser]

Yes thanks!

Is exactly what i was looking for, thanks!

Fabian

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 18:08 Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> 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
> -----
> 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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