<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hello Elaine,</font><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">I am trying to decide if it is better for me to invest time into learning Chimera X or if I should just keep using Houdini FX for most of the animation and rendering. So, there are two things that I have been trying to do but have not been able to find an answer:</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">1. Is there a way to export some kind of alembic file from Chimera X to import it into Houdini or Maya? I want to export a molecule changing conformation, but I don't see an .abc export option in the documentation. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">2. My other question is if there is a way to render a sequence of images from Chimera X to then import them as a png sequence into After Effects. I was able to render an individual frame but I don´t know if I can render a whole sequence.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you, </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel.</span></font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>P.S. Chimera X is amazing</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mar, 21 jun 2022 a la(s) 20:14, Daniel VillanuevaAvalos (<a href="mailto:danielvillanuevaavalos@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielvillanuevaavalos@gmail.com</a>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you very much. <div>And yes, I'm using chimera x. </div><div><br></div><div>Daniel.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mar, 21 jun 2022 a la(s) 16:03, Elaine Meng (<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Daniel,<br>
The "sym" command for building the multimer from monomer has both a "center" option and an "axis" option that you may need to use for helical symmetry.<br>
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I'm not sure which program you are using, since the subject line of the message says "Chimera" but you sent it to chimerax-users.<br>
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Here is the ChimeraX help for "sym":<br>
<<a href="https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/sym.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/sym.html</a>><br>
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Here is the Chimera help for "sym" (very similar but not the same as in Chimera):<br>
<<a href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/sym.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/sym.html</a>><br>
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If it is really a Chimera question, (for next time) you could send it to <a href="mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a> instead.<br>
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Sym is just for building the multimer. It won't change the coordinates to make them closer to the origin.<br>
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I hope this helps,<br>
Elaine<br>
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <br>
UCSF Chimera(X) team<br>
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br>
University of California, San Francisco<br>
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> On Jun 21, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Daniel VillanuevaAvalos via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" target="_blank">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
> I am trying to create a spirosome, and I am entering sym #1 h,56.5,164.4,12 but the radius of the helix is wrong. How can I change it? What I am trying to do is move my obj closer to origin but I cannot find a way to do that. I can only move the pivot to center with cofr 0,0,0. <br>
> Thank you, <br>
> Daniel.<br>
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