<div dir="ltr">Thanks a lot Elaine. No need for apologies at all. I am glad that the shortcomings of chimera have been addressed in chimeraX.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 9:48 PM Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Another user's question just reminded me that in ChimeraX (but not Chimera) you can show axis crosshairs at the current center of rotation with command:<br>
<br>
cofr showPivot true<br>
- or -<br>
cofr showPivot 5,.25<br>
<br>
(where the second one specifies a bigger size for the crosshairs). See "cofr" help:<br>
<<a href="https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cofr.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cofr.html</a>><br>
<br>
Apologies if it's too off-topic to respond with a feature that's only in ChimeraX, not Chimera.<br>
Best,<br>
Elaine<br>
<br>
> On Mar 21, 2022, at 11:44 AM, Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi Prathvi,<br>
> Not exactly, but you can open a file that contains the axes as a model -- please see this previous post:<br>
> <br>
> <<a href="https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2018-July/014859.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2018-July/014859.html</a>><br>
> <br>
> (That file can also be opened in ChimeraX, for anybody interested in trying our newer program.)<br>
> <br>
> I hope this helps,<br>
> Elaine<br>
> -----<br>
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <br>
> UCSF Chimera(X) team<br>
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br>
> University of California, San Francisco<br>
> <br>
>> On Mar 21, 2022, at 3:25 AM, Prathvi Singh via Chimera-users <<a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> Hi Elaine,<br>
>> I was wondering whether it is possible to show the axis guides at the bottom left or bottom right side of the screen just like in VMD?<br>
> <br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Prathvi Singh,<div>Research Fellow,<br><div>Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering,</div><div>Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016</div></div></div></div></div></div>