Tool: Distances

Distances is a table of distance monitors (measurements that update if there are changes). The tool also allows adding and deleting distance monitors, adjusting their appearance, and saving the information to a file.

Distance monitors are pseudobonds. They can also be added with the distance command, selection context menus (when two atoms are selected), and the distances mouse mode See also: hbonds, label, crosslinks histogram, select by pseudobond length, measurements

Appearance options:

• Color – a color well that can be clicked to choose the color interactively (initial default ); see also color
• Decimal places – distance-label places after the decimal (initial default 3)
• Number of dashes (initial default 9) – see also style
• Radius (initial default 0.1 Å) – see also size
• Show Å symbol – whether to include the Å symbol in the distance label (initial default true)

Buttons:

• Create – add a distance monitor between two atoms that have been selected
• Delete – remove distance monitor(s) chosen in the table
• Save Info... write all distances (sorted from shortest to longest) to a text file
• Save – save appearance settings as Distances preferences
• Reset – restore appearance settings to initial (“factory”) defaults
• Restore – restore appearance settings from previously saved Distances preferences